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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hurricane’
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 »
Better eating by accident
Posted in Eats, Family, Home, tagged alabama, conversation, cupholders, diet, dining room, eating, flood, floodwaters, food, food guidelines, health, healthy, Huntsville, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, manual transmission, Mobile, Pandora, remodeling, rewiring, table on March 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Ever manage to inadvertently start following a healthy eating pattern? This weekend, I realized that I’ve established two useful food guidelines over the past few years: I don’t eat in the car, and I don’t eat in front of the TV. Both situations came about entirely by accident. I purchased a car with a manual [...]
Four years, two saxophones and a vision
Posted in Family, tagged alabama, ashes, Biloxi, childhood, coast, Crescent City, family, father, French Quarter, hurricane, Katrina, mississippi, Mobile, mother, New Orleans, saxophone, South, storm, wedding on August 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It’s been four years since Hurricane Katrina hit, wiping out nearly all of my childhood haunts on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and causing unimaginable destruction in New Orleans. It also did thousands of dollars in damage to my home in Mobile, Alabama, but that’s an afterthought considering what happened to folks west of there. The dichotomy of kindness [...]
Outrunning a thousand things
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brother, career, childhood, children, dysfunction, family, farm, father, hobbies, home, hurricane, mississippi, mother, South, Texas, tragedy on April 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Speaking to a friend from Texas today, I noted that Southern families, or maybe just farming families in general, seem to have tragedies woven into their histories, generation after generation. This probably isn’t a fair assessment – Northerners have plenty of dysfunction, too, no? – but it’s what I know. Southerners can be shockingly straightforward [...]
25 Things I’ll Admit to in Order to Make the Tagging Stop
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged animals, brother, car, cats, caving, childfree, childhood, coast, coffee, concerts, education, Facebook, friends, hurricane, husband, marriage, Mini Cooper, music, New Orleans, OCD, smoking, travel, weightlifting on February 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Fine. I gave in. Here are 25 Things About Me. If Facebook can suffer through it, so can you. I love coffee. I drink more coffee than anyone knows. I drive my dream car, a Mini Cooper S. It’s cute, fast and fun, and more affordable than most people seem to realize. I work out [...]
My mom’s excellent taste in men
Posted in Photographs, tagged animals, coast, dogs, family, hurricane, mississippi, mother on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is Jerrel. When I tell a story that involves him, I’ll often call him my stepdad to save an explanation of my mom’s living arrangements and romantic life. More accurate wording is “my mom’s boyfriend,” since they’ve both been married a couple of times and aren’t interested in signing up for that particular institution [...]
Here comes the rain again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coast, home, hurricane, Mobile, weather on November 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I hate that a decade of living with near-constant rainfall and annual hurricanes in Mobile, Ala., has ruined thunderstorms for me. I’m always on the lookout for leaky roof shingles or dodgy tree branches instead of enjoying the sound of rain hitting the back deck or watching the lightning. Stupid Gulf Coast.
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