Delia Jo

I think it’s finally time I tell you what I mean when I say “The Sparkle Effect.”✨ It was a name I was given early in my days of stopping drinking, in late 2024. For a little while, I thought it might be a business. We made things. We set up a booth. We even did a craft fair. There have been stickers and glitter and a very pink desk we rescued from Facebook Marketplace that has already lived a whole life of its own. But the booth was short-lived because somewhere along the way I realized the...

Tomorrow marks two years since I had my last drink, which is not a sentence I ever imagined would become connected to the launch of a restaurant guide, but life has a peculiar way of circling back to the table. So tomorrow I am giving something to the place that first fed me. Hungry Hungry Huntsville --the web app, officially goes live on my 2 years alcohol-free date -- September 8, 2026. It is a growing web app and field guide to eating across Huntsville, Athens, Madison and the communities...

The North Alabama Flavor Forecast is an evolving guide to restaurants that have opened within the past year, along with confirmed upcoming restaurants and food businesses to get excited about.