Kimberly Madison

Over two hundred years ago, Americans cast their votes for the first President of the United States of America. Wildly popular, George Washington ran virtually unopposed.

This weekend I attended a baby shower held in my best friend’s honor. Watching her excitement opening each gift was enjoyable, but I was fascinated by the different baubles and trinkets new mothers have access to. The birth of my first child wasn’t that long ago, (after the invention of the wipe warmer but before the 3D sonogram) but enough time has passed that I recognize little on the shelves to

ALABAMA NEWS: Beginning today, Bryant Drive will be partially closed beginning at 7:00 and continuing through Thursday at 5:00 pm for storm sewer work. Harrison Construction Co. will be working on the North side of Bryant Drive between 14th and 15th avenues...

My first thought after waking this morning was Alabama’s victory over LSU (who?).  AJ’s stunning drive, engineered during the last moments of the game, inspired the same level of awe the morning after as that moment had been the night before (my second thought was how bad being an LSU fan must suck today, and my third was how much unmitigated joy I experienced at thought #2)...

All betrayals are painful, but the cruelest of cuts are those inflicted when a bond is broken by one of your own. Ladies, the walls of womanhood have been breached.

I came to a painful realization about myself this past weekend. Whatever minute accomplishments I’ve achieved in my 36 years on this earth were nullified by a man I’ve never met who lives hundreds of miles away from Tuscaloosa.