15
Jan
Posted in Folklore | 4 Comments »
photo credit: Mayu ;P
Some of you may know this already, as my identity is not so anonymous as I might like it to be, but I went to high school (5th grade through 12th, in fact) in a smallish-to-midsized Alabama town called Decatur.
Yes, there’s one in Georgia, too, and Illinois, for that matter. But my dad (a chemical engineer who’s now back to work after retirement, congrats Dad) was transferred to the one in Alabama to help manage one of the big chemical plants.
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Tags: alabama, business closures, c.f. penn's, decatur, decatur daily, economy, elvis presley, franklin penn, history, local color, memory lane, nostalgia, recession, secret ingredient, yankee transplant
14
Jul
Posted in Footloose and Freelance | 3 Comments »
photo credit: itspaulkelly
Why is today so long?
And why do I wish that it were shorter, thereby cutting my time on this earth down by several hours if only so that I could be at home watching The Real Housewives of New Jersey instead of here looking up at the MetLife building and checking the clock periodically between uppercasing and lowercasing the letters in certain charts which must not be mentioned by name and offering the occasional “Bless you” when a neighboring freelancer sneezes and wondering if perhaps I should have said “gesundheit” instead, because who am I to assume I know what prayers he might or might not be saying in his head?
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Tags: alabama, alabama slammer, boris yeltsin, bulldog puppy names, el camino, ex boyfriend, gesundheit, karmic retribution, maurice mr. mcmichaels, metlife building, real housewives of new jersey, sandra day o'connor, tuesday
4
Jul
Posted in Dad-vice | 1 Comment »
photo credit: HA! Designs – artbyheather
Your Unemployed Daughter is happy to announce that someone near and dear to her (Her Retired Father, in fact) has agreed to become a regular contributor to YUD. He’s been through a lot, including more than 30 years with the same company, a vicious leg-burning acid accident on the job, travels and travails from Alabama to Singapore.
We could learn from him in these treacherous times. Plus, he can suck down the (red, better for the heart) vino like nobody’s business. Apple, tree, etc.
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Tags: alabama, bike accident, dad advice, father knows best, her retired father, layoffs and firings, parents, singapore, surviving unemployment, uncle brucie
