This I Know

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
I learned something new this week….April and May are the top months for tornado touch-downs in the state of Tennessee.  I tend to believe the statistic to be correct.  In the last week, we’ve had two tornado warnings (With grave forecasts of another today.)  and enough lightning to make the cats all [...]

In Search of the Weinermobile

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
Utterly baffled.  That’s what we were.  Wednesday morning Jeff and I stood, shivering violently, in the rental car garage at the airport in Omaha, Nebraska.  We had rented a car but, due to a series of unfortunate events, (Belonging to the rental company, not us.) we were still waiting for [...]

Our Best Nights

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
Friday nights are date nights for Jeff and Kieran Rich.  We take turns planning dates and try really hard to come up with something original once in a while – something that doesn’t include the standard “dinner and a movie.”
As a result, we’ve had some interesting dates.  One such date included [...]

The Promise of Spring

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
It’s a frosty morning here in middle Tennessee.  It’s so cold that the cats won’t even sleep in their climbing tower — which is situated in front of the only window in our office.  Usually, the tower is the coveted cat location and we have fur-flinging fights over who gets to [...]

A Painful Epiphany

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
Something happened to me last Sunday that has never happened before.  Jeff and I were visiting the next contestant in our seemingly ever-present quest to find a new church home.  Nothing unusual there.  We were enjoying the experience, although the church was on the smallish-side, thus making Jeff and I stick out [...]

To Live with Fear

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
Note:  This blog has been kicking around in my draft file for several months now as its subject is something I truly struggle with and am not exactly comfortable writing about.  Every time I’ve written on this file, I kept asking myself, “Do I really want to put all of these [...]

Caution: Falling Coyotes

By Kiera Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday morning.  So instead of doing my usual Saturday stuff, I sat on the couch with the remote, a big fuzzy blanket, and two even fuzzier cats.  Feeling gross always makes me reach for the familiar and the comfortable.  Yesterday was no exception as [...]

It’s a Wonderful Life

By Kiera Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
Outlook went nuts this morning as it began downloading all of my email.  My box was absolutely jammed!  I was feeling very popular and really excited until I started wading through my inbox.  With the exception of a reminder from the library about some books I have due next week, every other [...]

Switching the Bait

By Kiera Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
We had an interesting thing happen on Friday morning.  Shortly after we returned from a morning workout that neither of us were interested in, the phone rang.  I glanced at the Caller ID and was more than a little confused by what I read as it was our name and number.  [...]

Commandments for Apartment Dwellers

By Kiera Rich – krich13@bellsouth.net
We are a part of the community at a fairly large suburban apartment complex in Atlanta.   As with any slice of the population pie, most of our neighbors are fairly normal, conscientious, semi-thoughtful people.  This blog is for not for those people.  This is for our other neighbors.   Here are some things that I would [...]