ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Megan Gagliardi. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
Take one look at me and you’ll see a normal 24 year-old-girl standing before you.
Take another look and you’ll most likely notice a 9-inch scar running down my chest. It’s a constant reminder to me that I should never take anything for granted – not even the little things. It’s my battle scar showing others how hard I have fought for life. Continue reading My Birmingham battle scar: How I fought for life→
Rotary Trail–Birmingham is surprisingly awesome (Photo courtesy of Rotary Club of Birmingham)
Surprisingly Awesome is my favorite podcast. Each episode explores topics that would put most people to sleep, but the show makes boring topics interesting and fun.
Drawing by Aly Martin-6 years old–who loves fairy tales & UAB
Don’t you love stories with happy endings?
Once upon a time in the sleepy village of Birmingham, Alabama, an evil UAB President Ray Watts (or his Trustee Roundtable) made the decision to terminate UAB football.
The UAB students took up arms, the faculty revolted, and the townspeople arose.
ComebackTown is published by David Sher to begin a discussion on a better Birmingham.
Today’s guest blogger is Merrill Stewart. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, please click here.
Birmingham is in the middle of a renaissance—and I want the world to know.
It is rewarding to watch the transformation of the city I call home and then share this energy with friends and neighbors who, quite frankly, never saw it coming.
A good friend came rushing up to me as I entered the Harbert Center for a meeting. He said, “I just found out something I bet you don’t know— “The University of Alabama doesn’t exist.”
Now I’ve heard some farfetched things in my life, but few topped this one.
But before all you anti University of Alabama folks from UAB and UAH get too excited, he explained that you don’t exist either.
