Exactly 20 years ago, I was knocking down $3.35 an hour at Taco Bell on Madison Boulevard (still just “20” back then). I usually ran the drive-through window, but also steamed, stuffed, or ran an inside register from time to time. Of course, everyone cleaned, except this one pathetic leech of a woman who claimed … Read more
Know something I miss from the ’70s? Huge, tacky, landscape-dominating, power-sucking, neon-laden, animated signs. They’re not products of the ’70s, of course–they date to the post-World War II era, when it was just becoming possible to drive coast to coast with relative ease. But the ’70s were the last time they were around in any … Read more
Today is mine and Lea’s 10th wedding anniversary. We were married in the gazebo at Burritt Museum in Huntsville the evening of May 10, 1997. I’m told it was lovely. One of my dad’s favorite photos from our wedding album shows me a little off-kilter, leaning on a railing with a big smile on my … Read more