So far this flu season I've braved three buffet dinners, two track meets and one gala, armed with I don't know how many little bottles of hand sanitizer and the new habit of eating finger foods with my left hand. I also happen to have a not-so-secret weapon: Medicine Soup. Think chicken soup ... and … Continue reading Dinner at My House: Medicine Soup
I ran the recent 2018 Mercedes Half Marathon in Birmingham. This was not my first time to do this, but I was extremely nervous about it. I knew this would not be a PR day. I had some perfectly good excuses: It was rainy. It was hot. I had some on-and-off pain in my hip. … Continue reading A Good Race
Restaurateurs and friends Reginald “Reggie” Washington and Duane Nutter serve “globally inspired Southern food” at their highly anticipated new restaurant, Southern National, in Mobile. Go ahead and plan your visit now. That city has embraced them, and, with a James Beard Foundation 2018 nomination for Best New Restaurant (Southern National is a semifinalist, and it was announced … Continue reading Southern National in Mobile is Destination Dining
Lucky you, Cahaba Heights! You have your own Crestline Bagel Co. now. The beloved breakfast and lunch spot in Mountain Brook's Crestline Village specializes in New York-style bagels and sees lines out the door every weekend (and some weekdays, too). Delayed school start? Crestline Bagel stop. This second location is in a new development on Crosshaven … Continue reading Crestline Bagel in Cahaba Heights
Here are the books I brought to WBRC Fox 6 on February 6. Memoir and mystery and lots of entertainment! Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White (University of Alabama Press) There’s so much to love about this young adult book by Alabama writer Lila Quintero Weaver! First of all, it’s a beautifully drawn, visually powerful graphic … Continue reading Fox 6 Books: February
Few foods draw as many different opinions as chili. Maybe pizza might with its toppings and crust and sauce back and forth. But maybe not. With chili, you can do chicken, turkey, pork, beef or a combination of those. You can go with ground meats or nice, bite-size, browned morsels. You can skip the meat … Continue reading Dinner at My House: Chili Your Way
Nick's Original Filet House (aka Nick's in the Sticks) is one of Alabama's oldest restaurants, serving great steaks at fantastic prices for more than 75 years. Photojournalist Brittany Faush and I went there for dinner recently, and we share our experience on Alabama NewsCenter. You can read our entire story here. My biggest takeaway (other … Continue reading Alabama Eats: Nicks in the Sticks
I had the opportunity to sit down with Birmingham design expert Lisa Caldwell Flake for a story in Portico Mountain Brook. Lisa has a stunning sense of style, and she comes by it honestly. Her mother, Mary Ruth Caldwell, is a designer, too. The mother-daughter team at Caldwell Flake Interiors works to uncover the character of a … Continue reading Update Your Space in One Afternoon
A couple of my kids are great thrift-store shoppers, so I took them to the thrift-store mecca Unclaimed Baggage Center. This huge store in Scottsboro, Alabama, is where unclaimed bags and cargo from all over the country eventually end up. "You never know what you'll find," is the logo of this store. It's an understatement. We … Continue reading Day Trip to Unclaimed Baggage
Here are the books I featured on WBRC Fox 6's Good Day Alabama on January 2. The Missing (William Morrow) In this twisty thriller by C.L Taylor, made highly intriguing by an unreliable narrator, a teenager goes missing from a family with lots of damaging secrets. The story is told from the perspective of Claire Wilkinson, who is … Continue reading Fox 6 Books: January
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