It occurred to me the other day that perhaps we choose our defining events in life. There are many options—first boyfriends or girlfriends, acceptance or rejections from certain universities, graduating (or not) from said universities, marriage, divorce, the birth of children.

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8/30/2010	What defines you... Rosalind Fournier What defines you... It occurred to me the other day that perhaps we choose our defining events in life. There are many options—first boyfriends or girlfriends, acceptance or rejections from certain universities, graduating . . . Read more.
8/3/2010	Spies Like Us Rosalind Fournier Spies like Us I’ll admit it: when I comment on how “fascinated everyone seems to be with those Russian spies” I am in fact referring to myself. I love these people. They made spying look so cute. And I want to know . . . Read more.
7/3/2010	In Dread of Club Med Rosalind Fournier In Dread of Club Med I am a travel-phobe. The onset of this condition coincided with having children, which I explain in this way: If I travel alone, I am afraid something (crash landing, hijacking, snakes on the plane) will . . . Read more.
5/31/2010	Small Talk Rosalind Fournier Small Talk I have never been one for small talk. For one thing, I’m no good at it, which was probably why I failed to get into a decent sorority at Vanderbilt—that, and the blaring reality that I was spectacularly . . . Read more.
5/1/2010	Use your words cleverly Rosalind Fournier Use your words cleverly I will never forget one conference I attended of the City and Regional Magazine Association in Minneapolis. At these conferences, editors from around the country gather to attend forums and share advice. . . . Read more.
4/13/2010	Dixie Carter Rosalind Fournier Dixie Carter Many years ago my friend John Montgomery allowed me to join a group of people treating Dixie Carter, who passed away April 11 at the age of 70, to a festive lunch at Café Bottega. The idea was for me . . . Read more.
3/30/2010	Bad Housekeeping Rosalind Fournier Bad Housekeeping As a child, my favorite books were in the Amelia Bedelia series. If you’re not familiar, the premise is that Amelia Bedelia works as a housekeeper—a role she is spectacularly ill-suited for, ala Stephanie . . . Read more.
3/1/2010	Arm Chair Economist 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 . . . Read more.
2/1/2010	Just a phone call away. Rosalind Fournier 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 . . . Read more.
12/30/2009	Onions, Dylan and Mii Rosalind Fournier 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 . . . Read more.
12/28/2009	Home. Alone. Rosalind Fournier 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 . . . Read more.
12/8/2009	A picture is worth a thousand words Rosalind Fournier 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 . . . Read more.
11/23/2009	Weebles wobble... Rosalind Fournier 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 . . . Read more.
11/16/2009	Room for Rent 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, . . . Read more.
10/14/2009	Brush with fame: Sometimes you just have to know who you’re looking for. Rosalind Fournier 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 . . . Read more.

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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