Archive for the ‘Nashville’ Category
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Four In a Can
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
Picture it. January 29th, Williamson County, Tennessee, weather-folk warning us of possible severe weather that might contain tornadoes. Of course, they won’t show up until the middle of the night when we’re all sleeping with one ear open. And so it begins… Before we head to bed, the three of us, Bossman (hubs), The Queen [...]
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Holiday Mishap or Trippin’ Thanksgivin’
Friday, December 30th, 2011
These are the bricks leading to my sister’s house and my Thanksgiving story. I went home alone for the holiday this year. Flew from Nashville to Albany, New York the day before Turkey Day. No traffic, no waiting, no problem checking my suitcase. I was carrying a small tote bag, my purse and an extra [...]
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we gave him bread…
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
ter and i went out into our area and did DA today. that’s official Red Cross jargon for Disaster Assessment. we were sent to an area where homes had a beautiful view of the river. now they have a view of a mess. most of the homes had damage that was limited to their crawl [...]
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tennessee flood
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
it’s been a busy day. i was going to stay home to visit with our son chris who is visiting, but got called back into the red cross chapter. worked lots of hours to get food donated for shelters and talked to many professional food peeps who were anxious to help out. chris goes home [...]
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oz at the ren
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Bossman and i were helping man the Red Cross booth at the Tennessee Renaissance Festival this past weekend. while there i noticed a similarity between Dorothy’s companions and the colorful ensemble at the Renaissance Festival. the sun had come out for just a few seconds on saturday and the glint off of this person’s apparel [...]
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The Not-So Biggest Loser Part II
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
around 9am they started handing out wristbands to the first 500 people who would be the lucky ones to audition in front of the creative director at The Biggest Loser auditions. hundreds didn’t make the cut and were sent off in the cold rain to their waiting cars. they seemed to have melted into the [...]
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the biggest…ok…the not-so-biggest loser part one
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
a couple of weeks ago my big-boned friend Bob called and asked if i’d go to the casting call for The Biggest Loser with him. “we could be a team. they’d call us The Improvisers.” at first i was insulted because i’d been working out a lot more and counting those damn calories. then i [...]
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house concert
Monday, January 12th, 2009
well, we hosted our very first house concert on saturday night. it was absolutely amazing and wonderful and such a breath of fresh air during the middle of winter. our opening act was Laurie McClain a folk, americana singer/songwriter. her fresh, crisp voice and touching and fun songs were heard by 30 new fans and [...]