Birmingham, training. My first week of work, but it does not feel like it, because I am not in my city, staying in a downtown hotel. Orientation is all forms, and small talk. Too much food. I think of my children, also in their first week, wondering where I am, where their father is. I…
Category: Alabama
housewarming/housedrenching
Well, one move, one delayed closing, and one hurricane later, we are here, safe and sound, if a bit wet. We left Nashville for our new home near Mobile, AL on the 18th, expecting to close the following day. Alas, it would be several nights in a hotel before our home was completed and ready…
Panic Level – Elevated (TS Debby Edition)
On top of bar pressures, pretty nervous about this nasty girl, heading STRAIGHT for our as-yet-unfinished home, vulnerably standing on a lot full of gorgeous mature trees that I really want to stay standing. Cross your fingers for us.
Splash
Whenever it rains in New Orleans, the streets turn into swimming pools. The boys, along with our upstairs neighbor, donned boots and puddle-stomped, while I supervised them and also a morning yard sale. So this morning was a fairly successful group yard sale – we made over $100 total, and got rid of a number…
Sunday Morn
It is Palm Sunday. Each Palm Sunday and Sunday-before-Christmas, our church hires a huge orchestra and they accompany our choir in a service-long musical extravaganza. No sermon, no Bible readings, nothing but the classical piece. We’re doing Mozart’s Grand Mass today. I sit in the very front of the stage, inches from a three-foot drop-off….