If I’m not planning my vacation around doughnuts, then you can bet that I’ve got my eye on a good ice cream place or two. Jake’s Ice Cream in Atlanta, for example, or the Shake Shack in Manhattan (actually, TONS of ice cream places in Manhattan — I never have enough time to visit all [...]
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As Pictured Below: Little Treasures in My House
Posted in As Pictured Below, Cats, Family, Home, Photographs, Uncategorized, tagged Amazing Otters, animal books, Animals of the High Mountains, Animals that Build their Homes, As Pictured Below, books, Books for Young Explorers, brother, cat books, Cats: Little Tigers in Your House, childhood, children's books, kitten books, Paddy Paws, sibling rivalry, Toddly on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, I posted this photo to Facebook, noting that I had owned this book since I was 2 1/2 years old. It took a friend approximately three minutes to name two of the kittens (Paddy Paws and Toddly) featured in the tale. He also quickly found a link to the series, titled Books for [...]
Tigers for Tomorrow provides a rare, up-close look at big cats, other exotic rescues
Posted in Cats, Huntsville, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged alabama, Alabama tiger rescue, animal rescue preserve, Attalla, Attalla animal reserve, canned hunts, grizzly rescue, lion rescue, tiger rescue, Tigers for Tomorrow, Untamed Mountain, wildlife preserve, Yonah on April 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Several months after I moved to Huntsville, I cut out a picture of a woman holding a tiger cub and secured it to my refrigerator. The accompanying newspaper article described a relatively new exotic animal preserve called Tigers for Tomorrow, which rescued animals from private owners, carnivals and canned hunts. Five years later, I finally [...]
Zenni eyewear: functional, fashionable and affordable
Posted in Photographs, Uncategorized, tagged affordable glasses, contact lens, fashion glasses, glasses from China, ordering glasses online, prescription glasses, Zenni glasses, Zenni Optical on March 9, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Zenni Optical may be the most important company I’ve discovered in a long time. The three pairs of prescription glasses pictured above? They cost me a total of $28.75, including shipping. Utterly ridiculous, right? The prescriptions must be wrong, or the frames must be ready to fall apart, or the lenses must be overly susceptible [...]
Cinnamon sugar bread gets a well-deserved second chance
Posted in Eats, Family, Photographs, Uncategorized, tagged baking, cinnamon bread, cinnamon sugar, cinnamon sugar bread, Pinterest, Pinterest recipes, Tupperware on February 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This loaf of cinnamon sugar bread almost never came to be, which would have been quite unfortunate, because it was a thing of perfection, with a crunchy top and soft interior laced with more than a mere hint of cinnamon sugar. The first time I tried the recipe, the top wasn’t crunchy, and the interior [...]
Believe the hype about blinc mascara
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Birchbox, blinc, blinc mascara, cosmetics, FeatherLash, L'Oreal, makeup, mascara, samples, smudgeproof mascara, waterproof mascara on January 25, 2012 | 4 Comments »
My Birchbox subscription has taught me a lot about the cosmetics industry. For example, a lot of women will apparently pay $18 an ounce for a “molecular mist” purported to do everything from keeping skin hydrated to protecting it from “ionizing radiation” emitted from the sun and cellphones. I thought it smelled like that one [...]
Views from my subconscious: snakes in a yard, water everywhere else
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anxiety, anxiety dreams, dreams, flooding, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, recurring dreams, snakes, snakes in dreams, stress, subconscious, water in dreams on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Since I was a little kid, my go-to anxiety dream involved snakes. In this recurring dream, I would step outside my house to find a yard filled with snakes, and I would have to walk carefully to avoid them. No matter what house I walked out of, the yard itself was inevitably the yard from [...]
Enough with retail panhandling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged charities, donations, grocery stores, retail, shopping on November 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’m tired of being hustled at the cash register. Cashiers at the two grocery stores where I shop at regularly have begun the holiday charity spiel early this year. The script literally says, “Would you like to give a dollar to help a family have a turkey for the holidays this year?” Yes. Yes. A [...]
Everybody back to school
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, education, graduate school, Rocket City Bloggers, time management on November 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Oddly, education is hindering my ability to write a post about education for the Rocket City Bloggers November blog carnival. In four weeks, I’ll wrap up my master’s degree in English. I never intended to pursue this degree, but it has been one of the more awesome things I’ve ever done. I think everybody should [...]
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Things you’re doing wrong in Facebook comments
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comments, Facebook, Facebook comment etiquette, Facebook comments, online etiquette on March 21, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Well, maybe not YOU. But some of our Facebook friends are making us cringe when we see that we have comments to review. Here are the top 5 Facebook commenting blunders that I’ve noticed seem to be on the rise: Adding needless drama and stress in the form of one-upmanship. Your FB friend may complain [...]
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