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Casual Observer

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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3/1/2010
Arm Chair Economist
As the economy starts to show signs of life again, the question on many TV commentators’ lips is often this: When we finally feel confident that we’ve achieved a solid recovery, will we still remember to spend less and save more? Embrace frugality? I’m far from an expert
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3/1/2010
Arm Chair Economist
As the economy starts to show signs of life again, the question on many TV commentators’ lips is often this: When we finally feel confident that we’ve achieved a solid recovery, will we still remember
2/1/2010
Just a phone call away.
This column began in fits and starts. I set out with one seemingly brilliant concept after another, each of which turned out to be lame. To give you an indication of what you’ve been spared, one idea
12/30/2009
The Year That Was
Onions, Dylen and Mii
If there’s one thing you can hold against kids (though, of course, you cannot), it’s they way that they, through no fault of their own, tend to dominate your thoughts, conversations, jokes and writing
12/28/2009
Casual Observer
Home. Alone.
This is the fundamental, obvious, and inevitable problem with working from home: Much of the day, you are home alone. And not in the Macaulay Culkin, run-wild-in-the-house-while foiling-the-nefarious-plots-of-inept-burglars
12/8/2009
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
A cursory Internet search raises doubts aplenty about who first coined the phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s not even clear what the original phrase was. Possibilities vary from
11/23/2009
Weebles wobble...
As a child, my regular pastime was to construct elaborate villages for my Fisher Price “Little People” (now known, disturbingly enough, as “Vintage Little People” to distinguish them from their current
11/16/2009
Sleeping Problems
Room For Rent: fully furnished, private bath, access to communal kitchen and laundry. Petite applicants preferred. Okay, so the last qualification violates all sorts of fair-housing regulations,
10/14/2009
I have a lurking feeling that hearing about another person’s celebrity sightings is about as interesting as hearing about the weird dream they had last night. And yet, in spite of this suspicion, I feel

Rosalind Smith Fournier is a writer because (a) she loves it and (b) she’s inept at pretty much everything else, unless you count a brief run in elementary school as the reigning broad-jump champion.
A Dallas native, she graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1993 and has lived here since. She previously served as managing editor for Birmingham magazine and now does freelance writing for venues including Birmingham magazine, The Birmingham News, Southern Progress Custom Publishing, local marketing firms and now—she’s proud to say—B-Metro. She lives in Homewood with husband Brad and two sons, Hugh and Rowland.

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