Friday marked our five-year anniversary. We celebrated by stopping in at Bari, an Italian ristorante that OpenTable.com recommends as Memphis’ premier haunt for foodies. Just south of Overton Square, Bari has erected an Italian outpost that is inspired more by the regional cuisine of coastal Italy and less by the music of Dean Martin.
Andrea and [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘marriage’
May 23, 2009
Bari Ristorante
March 25, 2009
Lamaze
Monday night we did our third Lamaze class. We are only six weeks away from the due date. One quick note from Lamaze. We watched a video that showed a focus group talking about their anxiety as they looked forward to the delivery. One woman on the video noted that she was very nervous because [...]
March 9, 2009
Baby Names
Naming a child is a huge responsibility for parents. Just ask any longtime school teacher or hospital nurse about weird names and you can be assured of a lengthy list. My main rule when we named our baby is that we Google it first. Our best research confirms that, for the moment, we shouldn’t be [...]
February 22, 2009
Dinner and a Movie
The steam from a quick post-work shower sneaks under the bathroom door and rises into the crisp hallway . A copy of the local newspaper’s entertainment section seconds as a coaster on the bedroom dresser. Two people briskly, but not hurriedly, ready themselves for their evening. Shirts are ironed; pants are pressed; shoes are shined. [...]
January 29, 2009
Zero Alarm Chili
Some home furnishings are guilty of being over-zealous. Alarm clocks, telephone ringers, microwave dingers, and bedroom lights all come to mind. Our apartment has another. We have a smoke alarm that chimes at every opportunity. It is always much ado bout nothing. Some alarms are sensitive. This one is hormonal. It’s like having Jim Cramer [...]
January 23, 2009
Thief in the Night
Our neighborhood isn’t bad. It isn’t great, either. So it is always wise to be on guard for break-ins. A noise jarred me while I was sleeping this week. It really spooked me. I jumped out of bed and looked for the first thing available to cover myself. It was a bathrobe. I put it [...]
November 11, 2008
Mrs. Clean
Andrea was gone over the weekend. I attempted to tidy up the house before she returned. A few hours after she got home she posed the disheartening question, “Did you clean?
Yes.
“Okay, I thought you might have. Thank you.”
It takes a while for her to figure it out. My male ineptitude prohibits me from leaving the [...]
July 26, 2008
What’s in a Name Anyway?
Andrea and I spent last night touring Memphis’ finest discount furniture stores. In the furniture industry, “discount” means too expensive. Full price means ridiculous. Upscale means grounds for institutionalization.
At each of our first two visits we were greeted by a salesman. Each of these guys had the same look: ill-fitting, wrinkled Dockers, a rotund figure [...]
June 24, 2008
Handicapping THE BACHELORETTE
I’d like to take this moment to usher Time in My Mind into an all-time low. Since fellow Amherstonian and Marion L. Steele grad. Jesse Csincsak has made it into the final four, it only seems proper to rank the remaining candidates of The Bachelorette. The remaining beaux are:
Graham (Raleigh, North Carolina)Jason (Seattle, Washington)Jeremy [...]
