Let me tell you about David DeRouen.

Stylist Cindi Horton met the subject at a local dinner party and immediately identified someone in need of a new look and update. “You could tell he had been focused on other things besides his appearance."

Tom McGuane once remarked in his book of essays, The Longest Silence, that he had always been fascinated by moving water. I know exactly how he feels. I doubt that my life would be anything like what it is today without that love.

The things I do to bring you all the swag and benefits of the Birmingham Weekly! Some say it is keeping the strict weekly deadlines that so quickly roll around again.

Could it have been that much fun, riding a dusty, hot, bumpy bus? Well that was the way to get to West Blocton, out in the country outside Birmingham when gas was rationed and Greyhound buses were not air-conditioned. I was happy and excited, despite the hot ride, and enjoying myself.

Zane Grey once wrote, “if I only fished to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.” I have to agree, I feel the same. And it’s not very often that a fishing trip turns into something that exemplifies this point so well.

When it comes to what to do in Birmingham, it ultimately comes down to what’s cooking. When you have company in from out of town are you going to take them to Vulcan or Chez FonFon? And maybe that’s the way it is everywhere.

Sitting in the hospital in 1999 in Orlando Florida after what had been the most tragic day in her life, Jan Hunt, a cancer insurance agent, sat in her hospital bed, repeating to herself over and over, “I win either way”.

One day when I was in the fourth grade, I had been catching butterflies in the front yard when my mother called me onto the awning-covered porch of our house in Bush Hills.

We just marked the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 disaster, and it was one of those moments when all the TV commentators asked all of us, “Do you remember where you were when…?”