The scenes of devastation from Tuscaloosa are unbelievable. My mom and I moved to Tuscaloosa in July 1978 and it was my home until June 1993 and my mom continues to live there. We’d chatted early Wednesday morning while I was on the Acela traveling from New York to Providence where I was working for [...]
30Apr11
Heartbreaking Destruction
I’m headed to Tuscaloosa today to see my mom and a few friends. Besides catching up with loved ones, one of the the things I look forward to is the food. Yes, it’s true, New York has a hundreds of restaurants where you can get practically anything. But Tuscaloosa has two of my very favorite [...]
I started off 2009 with an amazing book. What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson was a fluke to pick up at the bookstore. The cover drew me to read the jacket blurb from there I was hooked. A coming of age story about two brothers in Alabama. I’m game for that having done [...]
Let’s flash back to the late 80s / early 90s and my time at the University of Alabama. I was an undergrad there from the fall ’86 to the spring of ’91. I’m fuzzy on exactly what year I discovered the music of The Bentley Tock, but I know that it was at a Radio [...]
24Feb07
Bama Trip
I’ve spent the past three days in Alabama visiting my mom. It’s been almost exactly a year since I was down here last to help my mom move into a new house. This trip was centered around providing her tech support by installing a new computer and getting DSL up and running (her old computer [...]
