Archive for 'Safety' Category
May 25, 2018

  If you’ve ever had your engine overheat, you know it’s a scary thing. Your temperature gauge veers into the red, smoke comes out of your hood, your car stops, and you’ve got a literal hot mess on your hands. Here’s how to fix some of the common causes of your engine overheating. Your thermostat […]

Apr 26, 2018

  When you are driving in the rain, there’s a huge risk of hydroplaning that you need to be aware of and on the lookout for. The most dangerous time is when it’s just started to rain, because the dirt and oil on the road start to mix with the water before it soaks into […]

Oct 18, 2017

  I don’t know about you, but I can SMELL winter in the air. We’ve had some pretty wild weather the past month or so. It’s hot, it’s cold. It’s yes, it’s no. It’s basically a Katy Perry song out there. BUT, the last few days of brisk weather have me CONVINCED winter is coming. […]

Sep 27, 2017

  I don’t know if you have to travel down 787 as often as I do, but it feels like during the summer months and into the fall, 787 is in a constant state of being under construction. This typically means that there will be a lot of traffic, and many angry people driving even […]

Aug 25, 2017

  Ok, friends. Girl Scout, coming through. When it comes to being prepared for things, I am usually pretty well equipped to handle anything that might happen. The downside is that I typically carry around a purse that can comfortably fit a small child. BUT, I am prepared. You can imagine how stocked up my […]

Aug 11, 2017

  This has been a rainy summer. Like, it feels almost unusually rainy. On several occasions I found myself driving down a back road wondering what could have possibly possessed me to think that this was going to be a good life choice. PRAYING that my tires made it out of this game of driving […]

Aug 2, 2017

  When I was first learning how to drive, cell phones were just starting to be a thing. They were set up like a regular house phone with buttons on it. Real buttons. If you wanted to text, which was another mind blowing concept, there were only 10 buttons. This means that you had to […]

Jul 20, 2017

Picture it, Albany 2009. Freshly graduated from Albany High and my 18-year-old self felt on top of the world. I had just left home after showering to get ready for dinner with my parents. As was typical for me, I was running late so I was making a strong attempt at putting winged eyeliner on […]

Jul 12, 2017

So you’re taking a back road home. This is the kind of narrow back road that has absolutely no business being a two-way road, but here we are, praying that you remain the only car on this road. Alas, you are not that lucky. A truck is coming your way and there is a pothole […]

Jul 7, 2017

Ok, so we’ve all had that parking lot experience where you have wanted to scream and cry because there was no parking anywhere at the mall, grocery store, movies, or wherever. You have circled the lot 30 times with no end in sight and then, like a beacon in the night, some beautiful soul starts […]