…i made sure she landed into her own. her college, in Mobile, Alabama, had dorm room walls, built with cement block. i suppose, to prevent the building from being ripped apart by a hurricane. they tend to grow in the Gulf of Mexico. she is somewhat safe from the violent elements that plague the region….
Category: babbling
my Bat Mitzvah speech to my daughter
Most people fall into categories to define who they are. I believe it is my nature to try to simplify my life by putting labels on things and on people. I tried to do so with you. When you were 2, I once watched you stack your wooden blocks into towers, red up, animals…
eclectic mix of architecture & why i’m scared to go downtown
I’ve tried twice to capture the amazing mix of architecture of downtown Birmingham. The first time, i went downtown on a Sunday morning, with a friend who grew up in Paris. I had my Nikon with me & gave my friend an older one. As we came around a corner, we were confronted by a…
it takes a (DIY) village to house the birds
Instead of doing the watercolor commission or editing photo shoots…you know, the stuff that pays me, i decided i needed to just PLAY. It is summer after all. My daughter, Sophie, is the only child of mine who joined in the fun. The windows on the Mother Nature church of peace were painted with nail polish,…
this Memorial Day.
This Memorial Day, please remember to thank the men & women who have fought for this country. The soldiers are the reason you can grill your hot dogs & wash them down with beer. Some bellow, with profound arrogance & unbelievable stupidity (a prevalent combination today) “I’m American, get out of my country” “This…
School of the ARTS @ Samford University
How lucky are the local Birmingham residents to have a place such as this. The name has changed, it used to be, ‘Samford after Sundown’. They offer classes for everyone, art, cooking, photography, music and much more. They offer Art Summer Camp for kids, too! For more information: http://www.samford.edu/academy-of-the-arts & their telephone number is 205-726-2739….
i will always consider him my first…
husky. i was living in Burlington, Vermont, in 1990…i looking for a new apartment. my boyfriend suggested his friend’s house, he rented out rooms of his beautiful Victorian house. i met his friend…Gavin was a bit intimidating, but he had brought along his husky, named Kahn, to meet me. to see if we would suit…
i don’t know what it is, but i want it…
ok. i grew up in a very small town. every store/shop/doctor was owned by MY neighbor. Montpelier, Vermont doesn’t want big chains to take over the uniqueness of the town. my father had his own practice as the local optometrist. i gotta tell you, wherever my father went, people would greet him by name. i…
ok, so this is how life works…
in America…simplified by me. I think of America as a game of Monopoly. I grew up in the small State capital of Vermont–Montpelier. A town where all business were owned by my neighbors. Everyone knew that if we wanted Montpelier to thrive, we needed to support our neighbors. Easy enough, there were no giant Wal-marts…
throw back Thursday or the secret geek x-men fan
this coffee mug was a gift from my high school boyfriend. i started reading X-men comics when I was 13 years old. being snowed in most of the year, in Vermont, i read every book on my mother’s book shelves & even read quite a few of my father’s set of Harvard Classics…my brother was…
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