Okay. So I wear leggings as pants. Clearly, that came as a terrible shock to many of you – at least based on the comments, the Facebook conversations, and the in-real-life justifications I’ve had to offer since making my grand admission. So, in an effort to regain your confidence, I’d like to present you with […]
Don’t Text and Drive, But Feel Free to Garden.
My poor Flexi the Space Toaster is in the shop this week thanks to a busted water pump, which is entirely not at all cheap to fix. While I wait for her luxury stay at the spa to pass, Chris got me a rental car. It’s a Ford C-Max, which I had never heard of. […]
The Communication Habits of The Next Generation.
There was a time where hearing a voice without video to go with it absolutely terrified Noah. He would scream and run and have nothing to do with a non-FaceTiming telephone, whether on speakerphone or not. It was the stuff of demons. Then, I got a corded phone. Yes, we still have a landline. No, […]
Drug of Choice.
This blog post has not be evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. It is not recommended to assume its contents are useful medical advice or life advice. Actually, that might be true of this entire website. I am currently taking 125 calories worth of Vitamins a day, with the option of 20 more calories […]
Just Escape.
Every year about this time, there is a clear and defined day where it actually starts to feel like Fall in Alabama. And every year on that day, I go crazy. I become an obsessed antsy fool who can think of nothing but going North. Sometimes I fantasize about North Alabama, sometimes the mountains of […]
The Best Worst Comments, Volume II
You may have heard…bloggers live for comments. They are just the best. They add richness and depth to the story, offer wisdom, information, and differing viewpoints, as well as giving us the positive feedback we need to keep writing – because every blogger’s Love Language is Words of Affirmation – why else would we spend […]
Life is Weird.
I saw an image tweeted by a Twitter friend, Abbey Crain, that I couldn’t believe was real. Surely this was in a list of “The Worst Advice the Internet Ever Offered” or something similar. So I googled the entire phrase on the “tip” to see for myself what kind of list would disseminate such horrible […]
When Death Is Stranger than Fiction.
It was bath night. We had been to the playground, we had eaten popsicles and let them drip down our entire being, we had handled with our bare hands an opossum jawbone found in the wild (another story for another time), and, most compellingly, it was technically our twice a week appointed bath night. There […]
The Dilemna Dilemma.
I hated English in school, and I don’t expect that my blog follows the rules of the AP Stylebook – like, ever. I have endless grammar quirks that I am positive make my journalist friends secretly despise me. However, I have always been a fantastic speller. I’m convinced that spelling is something you’re born with […]
The Cost of Extroversion.
“Hey…did you know The Redmont Hotel is still open? I mean, who knew, right?” I groggily recounted this extraordinarily urgent information to Chris at 6:15am Saturday morning. I had not slept all night, and was entrapped in a heavy delirium that later made it impossible to walk in a straight line. “I mean, I figured […]