Dan, a great fur dad. Father’s Day has always left me feeling conflicted. I still remember standing in front of the Hallmark Cards display, trying to find a card that wasn’t sappy to send to my dad when I was a kid. None of the cards dripping with praise fit. Those basic non-emotional cards were … More Father’s Day
I write a lot about my home and how much I love it and post way too many photos of the view from our top deck on Facebook- our Chez Gainey, as we dubbed it almost fifteen years ago when we bought this crazy old house that will hit the century mark in a year … More On that Sense of Place
If I close my eyes, I can still smell the case, the mixture of age, cork grease, dust, and key oil. I can see its worn red fuzzy lining, see the shine of the old plastic Bundy clarinet, complete with a marching lyre and the first clarinet parts to several challenging band pieces belonging to … More Thinking Back on Beginnings
I spent the afternoon at the laundromat today, but it was a much better experience than the one I wrote about in a recent blog, thankfully- a nice, clean, and happy place…or as happy as a laundromat can be. Just as I pulled the Mini into my garage with the huge basket of clean clothes, … More Repairmen Alert: A Critter Dialogue
Extremes… If you have followed my blog for any length of time, you know that I have always struggled with my weight. I’ve successfully lost a lot of weight over my lifetime, but it has managed to creep back on every single time as I have dealt with surgeries, grief, and stress over the years. … More On Resolve, Change, and a Visitor to Chez Gainey
When we first moved to Chez Gainey fifteen years ago, Dan acknowledged my love of doing laundry (a sickness, I know) by surprising me with a brand new set of Maytag Neptunes. I genuflected in front of them for the longest time, so grateful to have left behind my cranky undependable old set in the … More Rub-a-Dub-Flub: Tales from a Southside Laundromat
We have now lived in our funky old Southside Birmingham home on the side of Red Mountain for fifteen years. Built in 1920, our ninety-eight-year-old ‘Chez Gainey’ is a special place, one that has seen a lot of change and a lot of history happen in what is known as ‘The Magic City’ during that … More Buried Treasure
