I decided to drive over to Fairhope today, a fun town in Baldwin County. Coastal Alabama consists of just 2 counties, Mobile and Baldwin. Baldwin has always struck me as a little more affluent and liberal--liberal in the sense of smug white college graduates who say things like "I don't even see color!"--than Mobile, even though Mobile County ( Read more... )

See, my favorite fast food burger for my whole life, most of which was spent in California, has been Carl's Jr.'s western bacon cheeseburger. (For a variety of reasons, chief among them being it's not a franchise, I do not consider In N' Out Burger to be "fast food ( Read more... )

Our cold front rolled in right on time last night, it went from 78 degrees yesterday--which felt like more, because it was also humid--to 55 overnight, with a high today of 61 ( Read more... )

When I was driving back from Mobile yesterday I passed a billboard for something called "Island Fire Glass Art" in Theodore. I Googled it when I got back to the condo and it's a coffee shop/glass art gallery that also has classes in blowing glass. Interesting! So I went there today just before noon; Theodore is only about 20 minutes' drive from the ( Read more... )

I'm spending the next week at our condo on Dauphin Island in Mobile Bay. I left about 10:00 in the morning, made a stop at the Trader Joe's in Baton Rouge for food, and got here at 4:00 ( Read more... )

I scheduled a week's vacation for mid-October today. I was hoping to spend a few days on the Texas coast with my mother and aunt; Aunt Lori has had their brother's ashes since he died earlier this year and he wanted them scattered at Port Aransas. But the two of them can never get their shit together and actually make a plan, so Lori's probably ( Read more... )