Life

I’ve recently realized that many social media conversations closely parallel those with my resident 5-year-old. It goes something like this: Me: Statement Him: Unrelated Response Me: Respond to His Unrelated Response Him: Squirrel! What has happened...

Welcome to a new week. Here’s hoping it is a good one for everyone. There are some good numbers being reported. On the upside, I am seeing more people wearing masks downtown, so hopefully that will...

Happy Friday. I hope your weekend is a good one. Our family picks up a chrome book and “manipulatives” for a kindergarten student today as we continue to ramp up for virtual education. Accomplishments this week:...

“Is it the weekend, yet?” Urban Boy, age five, asks me this each morning as I stumble out to make coffee in the kitchen, where he’s been patiently waiting for his coffee bean. We’re working on...

Good Wednesday! We’re halfway through another action-packed week. New benchmark information is provided below which should give us a glimpse of how we are doing locally. Recent numbers of hospitalizations seem to be better and deaths...

It’s a new day and a great day for beginnings. I was pleased to tell the story this morning of a new business opening in the downtown area. Lauren’s inspirational spirit during a difficult time was...

I hope you each had some happy time this weekend. We enjoyed some fresh Alabama gulf shrimp on the grill, thanks to Hen Hoc. This means so much to us. The Alabama gulf coast was home...

It’s Friday and I hope you all find a way to make your weekend a good one. We’re all stressed, worried, frustrated or some combination of each of those. It’s easy right now for that toxic...