by Robin | May 15, 2012 | Chattanooga
Maybe I did it to promote a wonderfully fun, worthwhile event. Maybe I did it as a small attempt to bridge culture and community. Maybe I did it because I had a wild hair ('cause trust me, the hair, she was wild…!) Or m a y b e I just did it...
by Robin | May 14, 2012 | Chattanooga, Good causes
A Dragon on a boat, not to be confused with the Dragon Boats descending on Chattanooga on Saturday! What would YOU do if you had only two months in your hometown before leaving the country? I, for one, can tell you what I'm doing–cramming as much into 60...
by Robin | Apr 24, 2012 | Chattanooga, Personal
A wonderful, local restaurant, The Public House, asked Chattanoogans to honor a mom in their life by writing a poem about her. In response, I wrote a short tribute to my mother-in-law (for newer readers who might not know, I lost my mom to cancer when I was a...
by Robin | Apr 21, 2012 | Chattanooga, Southern, y'all
I'm in town only a few months before heading back to the other side of the planet to continue my year of adventure, but the timing couldn't be better to be in Chattanooga. There's something fun on tap every weekend between now and "then,"...
by Robin | Apr 20, 2012 | Chattanooga, Chick-fil-A, Personal
[1] When I arrived home from two months in Germany, my body, still on CEU time, felt like it was 2:00 am (it was 8:00 pm EST). And despite Lufthansa's Thai chicken airplane feast eaten earlier in the day, I'm pretty sure I missed a meal between...
by Robin | Dec 28, 2011 | Art, Chattanooga
I mean no disrespect… but when I stumbled across this in a local folk art gallery the other day… I simultaneously thought of Matthew Paul Turner and Tim Tebow, though probably not for the same reason…. Which made me smile. Fond thoughts of them,...