When I was a little girl, my impression of Birmingham’s downtown area was a jumble of closed up, falling apart, and run-down buildings. My Mom would tell me of their grandness when she was a child, and I would daydream as to what it must have been like to dress up in my Sunday best […]
…Because I Like To Make an Impression at Social Events…
Chris and I had the privilege of attending the Birmingham Restaurant Week Preview Party on Wednesday night, compliments of Birmingham Magazine, from whom I won a contest for two tickets. (Which, by the way, if you’re in the area and don’t know about Birmingham Restaurant Week, you absolutely must check it out – it starts […]
Yogurt Mountain and the Dreadful Case of Underbutt.
There’s a new hangout in Birmingham. It is most definintely the hippest of all places to go, especially if you’re under 18 years old. The esteemed and worshipped ascent to Yogurt Mountain. Careful, though. It is dangerously addictive. I am afraid that my husband is hopelessly and forever strung out on the place. When it […]
We All Live in a Yellow Atmosphere…
It’s Pollen Week in Birmingham. Maybe it is in Alabama as a whole, or the world as a whole. I don’t know. But I do know it’s most definitely pollen week here. Pollen Week is THE week when every flowering and non-flowering tree in the city (and we have a lot of them) conspire together […]
Uncle Joe’s Tot Locker: An Investigative Report.
We have been having an exceedingly odd Winter here in Alabama. In a state where we’re lucky if we get snow once a decade, we have had half a dozen snow predictions in the past three months. And it was because of these unheard of winter conditions that Uncle Joe’s Tot Locker found it’s way […]
Clay Play
My Aunt Tena of Earthborn Pottery and Cahaba Clayworks hosted myself and a dozen other bloggers Saturday to let us experience pottery making first hand. In all the years that Tena has done pottery, I’ve never taken one of her classes, and so I’ve been SO excited about trying it out! I had no idea […]
Amazingly Racing Into Trouble.
Our Church Youth Group had a Retreat this past weekend, and somehow I got dubbed as responsible enough to be a driver for the Senior Girl’s team of The Amazing Race, which included clues, riddles, assignments, and adventure. Our clues led us all over town, including Vulcan, our city’s pants-less statue, famous for mooning the […]
At Least It’s a Curse With a Sense of Humor.
Earlier this year, I posted about mine and Chris’ curse, that causes every place that we love and that is sentimental to our relationship to close, get demolished, or otherwise maimed. The lowest point of this curse was when our super classy Wedding Rehearsal location, a Greek Steakhouse called Sarris’, closed down and was replaced […]
The Unfortunate Case of Frog Duck-Butt.
(For the record, I can’t pronounce the title of this blog without getting tongue twisted. Go ahead, try it – I bet you can’t either.) Yesterday, we had a blissfully wonderful Memorial Day family outing to the mall. Now, in Birmingham, although we DO have multiple choices, “The Mall” automatically means The Riverchase Galleria. It’s […]
A Sadly Tasty Curse.
Did you ever watch “Northern Exposure” in the early 90’s? Well, you should have. I did, but only vaguely remembered it (since I was like, uh, 9 years old when it started), but remembered enough to know that it was a fun show with super-quirky characters. So Chris (who had never seen it) and I […]