by Robin | Sep 5, 2011 | Chattanooga, Weather
It started Christmas Day 2010 and it's been going on for nine months now–this is the craziest weather year I ever remember. In Chattanooga: We had our first ever White Christmas. Multiple super cell tornados in April crushed a path of...
by Robin | Sep 1, 2011 | Cancer is NOT okay!, Chattanooga, Encouragement, Faith, Gratitude, Great quotes, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
It is raining. There has never been a dryer month in Chattanooga than August 2011, and yet it pours. Growl and hiss, snarl and bite, it’s raining cats and dogs, the dangerous kind. Black lips curl over porcelain daggers, ready to sink in to flesh, to spill...
by Robin | Jul 21, 2011 | Bluff View Arts District, Chattanooga, Travel
Residents who live in Chattanooga already know it's a magical place– But for the past year now, the word has been getting out to Atlanta, Birmingham, Huntsville, Knoxville, Nashville and beyond thanks to The Johnson Group, creators of...
by Robin | Jun 5, 2011 | Cancer is NOT okay!, Chattanooga, Chick-fil-A, Friends, friendship, Inspiring, Kids
He says he's just an ordinary sixth grader but the evidence is stacked against him: After reading Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie ("a story about a middle school boy whose younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia. The boy ends up...
by Robin | Jun 2, 2011 | Chattanooga, Inspiring, Kids, Personal
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~ e.e. cummings It was a day of endings and beginnings– My youngest, last born, always-baby-to-me, celebrating 8th grade commencement; his, both farewell to middle school and long-anticipated...
by Robin | Jun 1, 2011 | (in)courage, Chattanooga, Weather
Beyond the obvious–uprooted trees, damaged homes and property, and demolished businesses–I've noticed an unexpected change in the way meteorologists report the weather: Where previously they'd magnify the potential for "severe" weather,...