Hello! I'm Alice, which is my real name (most of the other names here have been changed, though, to protect the innocent). I live in an almost-100-year-old house in downtown Chattanooga, TN with my first husband, Ralph (who is from New Canaan, CT), and a cockapoo named Nonnie (the moniker comes from a Laurens van der Post book). Our daughter, Emmie, plays a supporting role on the blog -- she's off being a student, but she pops in often enough to keep things interesting.
I originally hale from Batavia, NY, a quiet little town in rural western New York. Ralph and I met while attending college in Carlisle, PA, and then moved on to Chapel Hill, NC together before finally settling in Tennessee. Other places we've lived in long enough to have a mailing address include London and San Francisco.
This blog is about a lot of things -- the places I visit, things I cook, people I meet, photos I take, things I read, and -- of course, politics. I'm an unrepentant progressive, liberal, lefty, euro-loving, educated elitist and I'm looking forward to an administration that doesn't raise my blood pressure quite as often as the outgoing one did...
November 1st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Yeah, what every woman wants is to have her decisions put in air quotes. Thank goodness “I” already “voted” “for” “Obama”.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
uh, “yeah”. I “voted” for “Obama” as well.
Samantha Bee rocks.
(oh, and I still want to have Jon Stewart’s baby, even though my ovaries don’t work anymore. We’d just have to try “harder” - get it, get it?)