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 9:41 pm
Hilarious and sad. It is funny to laugh at her, but remember she is one heart beat away from being president if they are elected 68 hours from now. If she cannot tell when she is being played, oh dear God… she has no business even being Governor or Mayor of anything.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
I was sooo embarrassed for her I couldn’t even watch. The thought of being embarrassed by our leaders for the next 4 years is too draining. Please please please can we all as a country get this right. It would be so great to actually dare I say it stand up and be proud of our leaders and country for their actions and not cringing in our seats.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I LOVED this. She must have been fuming!