Twelve years ago today, I lost a beloved airplane and gained a far more beloved Hal. Here’s the story as told on the Imogene and Willie blog, via the unsurpassed wordsmithery of Libby Callaway and the breathtaking photographic wizardry of Tony Baker. Please bear with Hal and me as we get all gross about the whole…
For more than a year, I’ve been writing essays, features, and a monthly column for HER Nashville, a local women’s monthly edited by the lovely and stylish Abby White Plachy. Here a a few of my favorites from the spring and summer: A Tomboy Turns 40 – A madcap obstacle race complete with fire, mud,…
Every year Halcyon Garden has more pots to fill, thanks to a generous grant by the Mom Green foundation. But every April we seem to buy fewer varieties of annuals. We know what we like now, and we don’t do quite so much experimenting anymore. And we’ve finally learned that a broad swath of one…
From the archives: “Transitioned,” a WPLN series about Tennesseans adapting to an economy in flux.
Whattaya get when you assemble a beautiful evening, lilies in bloom, and the Instagram iPhone app?
The 13-year cicadas’ legacy: legions of mangled small trees, hearing loss, public humiliation, and quashed hubris I do not like the red-eyed beast. I do not like it in the least. I do not like it when I dine. I do not like it in my wine. I do not like it on my plants.…
How to make amazing bread without breaking a sweat.
“Place loose mesh or netting over small, vulnerable trees to protect them from damage,” the experts tell us. But which trees are “vulnerable”? And what if you have about 30 “vulnerable trees” in your yard? Happy Mother’s Day, Mom! How’d you like to spend all day helping me incarcerate trees in sheets of fine netting?…
The Greenery 