Archive for the 'alabama' Category
Get your ringside seat
If I wanted to be on the Jerry Spring show, I would call up his producers and make up some ridiculous story about how my baby’s daddy is sleeping with my sister’s husband who is a midget with one eye. The show loves people from Alabama …
I avoid drama like the plague … Read more
No commentsThe scent of death
Death is inevitable. It is the natural termination of life.
I completely understand the purpose behind death and the reasons why our lives must always come to an abrupt end. However, I am at a loss for words when it comes to tragic deaths … accidents, murder. Read more
2 commentsSnow over Alabama
The cloudy sky threatens rain, but instead it brings a new surprise … snow.
Tiny white flakes fill the afternoon sky. The thermometer reads 37 degrees, but the temperature is dropping fast. Will any of this snow stay to play? Read more
3 commentsDid I forget your order?
I would gladly wipe dirty butts and watch people bleed out of their eyeballs if it meant that I would never have to set foot in another restaurant where I am the waitress. Read more
6 commentsThe proper way to say goodbye
With my last weekend coming to a close, I am overcome with a new realization. I am really leaving Florida.
All the joy of moving home to family and friends has completely clouded my vision to the plain and simple truth of the situation -Â I am about to make a big change. My life is about to be turned inside out. I have absolutely no clue what my life will look like in two months, two years, 10 years.
I remember feeling this way before … Read more
3 commentsAnother chapter ends
As another chapter ends in the book of life, I look back on all the previous chapters and wonder what I could have done differently. Am I writing this book in a way that will make sense to my readers? Did I make too many typos or mistakes?
My days as a journalist are over …
5 commentsSpecialization is for insects
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” - Robert Heinlein
It recently occurred to me that I might just be taking up space in Florida. I do not really have any marketable skills that transfer into the big picture around here. The only real skill I have is writing. And, if the current trend in newspaper reporting has any baring on my future as a writer, I am in trouble … Read more
Wonderful Alabama
If someone curses my home again, I might be forced to …
Alabama gets a lot of criticism from Floridians as well as from people living outside of the South. Alabama is easy to stereotype and in many parts of the state I can see why these stereotypes exist.
Stereotypical Alabamians are not as well-rounded as they could be. The education level of the state is lacking and there are rednecks running rampant in some backwoods counties, but take a look at Florida!
We are no better here, especially not in the Florida Panhandle. Just because we are 60 miles from Alabama does not make us any better than the folks up there.
So, please quit criticizing my home. Alabama is beautiful!
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