This has been a tough week. Health care has consumed nearly every minute and watching our Congressional leaders and President slowly shred the Constitution is painful. Last night, I even had a dream about health care legislation.
This morning, Twitter (Thanks...
These are just a few of the highlights:The day started off with a game of Sudoku in his brand new jammies.Around 3 o'clock, he nodded off on the couch for a short nap.You can really see here just how much...
This week, I bring you the white ibis — a pair flying along the surface of the water. It’s not the greatest photo in the world in terms of detail (a closer photo will appear later in the series), but...
Well. I guess Spring is not official until tomorrow but my daily commute to and from work takes me through 22 miles of nothing but farm land and the trees are budding and the flowers are blooming and it is...
There are days I would like to live downtown, mostly so owning a car would be unnecessary. I like walking, biking and even the communal feeling of riding the bus. Living on Signal Mountain makes having a car a requirement.
Besides...
Dancers at the 2009 Palate 2 Palette celebration. By Quiddity Entertainment.
Chattanooga's Southside will be swinging this weekend during the third annual Palate 2 Palette fundraiser for the Craniofacial Foundation of America. Described as a "celebration of the visual, culinary and...
The debate over Normal Park Museum Magnet's zone came to a head Thursday evening when the Hamilton County School Board voted 6 to 3 to maintain the school's current zone and pre-K program, both of which have become the subject...
The old standard for when I have shamefully neglected the blog. I last Ing-ed in December 2008.Reading: Three Cups of TeaDrinking: water (surprising, I know!) Listening: TN vs. San Diego State, 1st round of the NCAA tourney. GO VOLS! Feeling:...
Guatemalan ex-president Alfonso Portillo will be extradited to the US after he goes through a local trial and serves his local sentence. The request for extradition came from New York's D.A. under the charge of money laundering (US$70 million)....
It wasn’t advertising or word of mouth that brought me to Joe Friday’s Alaskan Café. It was, rather, luck (a walk-by) and a healthy dose of depraved curiosity (there are antlers and fireplaces visible from the street). Tucked behind JJ’s...
It was 1998 when I read M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth. I have not re-read it since then, so please bear with me. I’m working from memory....
Eric Cantor, the House Minority Whip, endorses TN03 candidate Robin Smith. In a statement announcing the endorsement, Smith calls Cantor "a hero to the conservative cause."
Via timesfreepress.com
"Robin Smith Earns Endorsement of Prominent House Republican" originally appeared on Chattarati.com on March...
'Between Space' installation By Jamey Grimes.
As art lovers from around the region enter this year's 4 Bridges Arts Festival, the first place they'll want to look is up. Complimenting the works of 150 local and regional artists, a signature installation...
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the envelope in the mailbox. It wasn't the latest Netflix deliveries or the cascade of catalogs my wife receives. And it certainly wasn't the phone bill that got me excited,...
Yesterday Seth went to pre-school for the first time. Technically, he started pre-school back at the beginning of winter, but that turned out to be a false start. He got sick and the weather got really cold. With no heat...
I went to a great meeting this morning at Outdoor Chattanooga to plan a biking fashion show. If you don't think that biking and fashion mix try out this sight-Copenhagen Cycling Chics. Sondra Arden of Collective Clothing and Cameron...
LOL, can you tell I have been working on positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives/adverbs with Sean?Well, to get to the point, I have a couple of odd photos to post today and a couple of really sweet (no pun intended)...
not original… but for the day:
“Here’s to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and a easy one.
A pretty girl and a honest one.
A cold pint… and another one.”
To all my buddies.
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The Chattanooga City Council unanimously approved a water quality budget of approximately $12 million Tuesday evening after months of public debate and deliberation by city officials. For weeks, council members have wrestled with two proposals: one proposed by the council-appointed...
In order:Crystal Bowersox ~ Consistent, authentic, effortless, an always-delight. Plus she pulls off the dreads like few white women could; heck I couldn't even pull off BRAIDS!Siobhan Magnus ~ Man, I want her to take on Streisand! Drama Queen, enigmatic,...
Last week, Gallup released a poll showing that younger Americans (18-29) are more pro-life than their parents. This is particularly interesting since 18-29 year-olds only represents about half of the Millenial generation, yet we are trending more conservative than our...
One of the other things I love about homeschooling is the freedom to have days like today; a surprise date with my little man to see the musical Peter Pan. to hear him belly laugh at the antics of Mr.Smee,...
I just found out that one of my fav. bands One-Eyed Doll http://www.oneeyeddoll.com is coming to Chattanooga on 30 March, 2010!!! JJ's Bohemia. Be there!...
I am missing the Walnut Street bridge! I can't wait for it to reopen. But for how much I miss it, I think Q is missing it even more. He has been insisting it will be finished a month early. He...
While I was in Abu Dhabi I encountered the orange soda Mirinda in various places and it reminded my of my childhood where we often got to drink Mirinda. Why though is Orange soda great everywhere but in the...
On Saturday, March 13, the fairly progressive, electronic music project of Ernest Greene, Washed Out, played at 412 Market (also known as Fathom, also known as Mosaic). The definition of “fairly progressive” could have multifarious sonic implications, but in a...
This will be the first of last blog posts here on druid628.blogspot.com...it will be moving soon a permanent location. This was originally supposed to be temporary in my mind when I started my blog here. That was May of 2005.That...
The universe must be off-balanced today. Slates’ Double X actually published a post that attacked Nancy Pelosi and linked to a Mary Katherine Ham piece at the Weekly Standard. I thought they had some type of rule that banned all...
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