Any dedicated Gilmore Girls fan already knows that Netflix is set to release brand-new episodes of the series on November 25.…
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Carrie and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
When some people experience a string of bad luck, I supposed they might chalk it up to random coincidence. I, on…
Shipt & Western Are BFFs and We’re All Winners!
Life is full of hard stuff. Real, important stuff like career obstacles, relationship troubles and the impending sense of mortality that…
Have a Happy Christmas and Feel Good about It, Too: Shop Locally for Christmas!
Lots of people have a lot of problems with Christmas. They don’t like to take the Christ out of Christmas. They…
Nostalgia, Baseball and National Novel Writing Month
I’ve been feeling really nostalgic lately. Part of it’s the weather, of course: the leaves are falling, and we’re moving into…
Trader Joe’s in Birmingham: Angel of Cookie Butter or Corporate Devil?
Trader Joe’s opens in Birmingham today at the Summit, and judging from my Facebook feed, we could not be more excited.…
Whole Foods Cuts Hundreds of Jobs, Blames Us
Whole Foods announced yesterday that they’re cutting 1,500 jobs — a little over one in every hundred people who work for…
Social Media Best Practices: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I don’t always have time to do what’s “best” for my social media and my blog. Sometimes, I don’t post because…
Pop-up Shops, Microloans, Feasts and Forests
The business of opening a business looks different than it used to. You don’t just have the option of opening a…
The Instagram Guide to Downtown Huntsville (on a Sunday)
Crowdsourcing can be a beautiful thing. This weekend, I tagged along with my friend Kelly for a work trip to Decatur.…