I’m surprised no one has mentioned the part where the mostly white Save The Paseo bunch counter-protested at a rally being held in a black church. They stood in the aisles and refused all requests to literally sit down from the clergy.

This! I’m not working because of a recently diagnosed chronic illness, so I’m not awake to say bye to my husband at 5am. I know he kisses me before he leaves every morning because I smell his cologne lingering on my skin. He appreciates that I try to find positives with my health issues, and I appreciate that he…

In college, I had a friend who has us say “towards the fuzzy dice” or “away from the fuzzy dice” to give directions while they were driving. There were fuzzy dice on the rearview. 

Some military bases now have local law enforcement at the gates and ticketing on base as opposed to MPs.

Benefits don’t kick in at Lowe's for six months. 

Fingerprints were how the morgue managed to identify him, so it's back to negligence on the part of the police. 

I got a POTS diagnosis a few months ago as a completely grown adult. I went low carb, eliminated alcohol, wear compression socks, and struggle to drink enough water. I fill a growler bottle and pour a glass every time I walk past it. If I empty the bottle, I've met the bare minimum. I’m not looking forward to warmer…

We left West Berlin for El Paso in 1989. Then we left Germany (Bad Kreuznach) again in 1994 for Metro Atlanta. I can appreciate my quiet house in much smaller town Alabama than Huntsville, but I still wish I were in Germany. I go to Atlanta, Birmingham, and Huntsville when I need civilization.

In Oxford, AL (of criminalizing bathroom use before the NCAA waved Title IX around and pointed at the city’s brand new baseball complex), there’s a “Veteran’s Park” near the lake and civic center which was completed last year or so. It flies flags from all the service branches and has memorial plaques with the names…

Most plain ice cream is safe. Non-cookie/pie flavors of Talenti gelato are gluten free. Most Ben & Jerry’s have possible cross-contamination (shared equipment) issues. It’s going to be a lifelong thing, so get your grocery shopper up to date on bad ingredients (wheat, barley, rye, malt) asap. My husband is excellent…

My mom’s family is from Buan and my grandfather will be flying into Atlanta for a two month visit next week. I’m glad I get to see him again because every time is possibly the last with an 80+ year old man, but I’m even more thankful given the current political climate. The second month of his trip will be with his…

SIL’s husband and his mother danced to that at their wedding. Mr. Trogdor and I looked at each other and just kept drinking.

At my sister-in-law’s wedding, the groom and his mother danced to Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”. The marriage lasted just over a year and a half before he broke up via text and his mom drove 1800 miles round trip take him home.

Except without letting customers know the car hops work for tips or even allowing a way to put a tip on a credit card. My kid did that in high school before graduating to Starbucks.

I live in Oxford, so I completely understand. Our accomplishment flour the week was to get a Victoria’s Secret manager fired after she tossed people out of the store for shopping while black. There was an attempted shoplifting, so she decided every black person had to go. I was once kicked out of the same mall for…

There’s a charter bus leaving Birmingham, AL for $115 or so a person. The thought of riding through the night, marching, then getting right back on the bus drains me, so I’ve arranged to stay with family and march with friends. My dad and sister have agreed to bail me out if I get too civilly disobedient.

I just bought one. It might be a glitch.

I just bought one. It might be a glitch.

Oh, Alabama. I wore my “I’m a Nasty Woman” shirt and left my choices exposed, in case my husband needed to cheat off my ballot since I researched the amendments & he didn’t, just like in high school. The little old ladies volunteering just smiled and were incredibly polite, as always.

It was egg drop soup when we were little, but as we got older, mom did her best to burn out the sickness like she was exorcising a demon.

Koreans are of the opinion that you should throw all the hot pepper at whatever is making you sick and that will somehow fix things.