Check out our most recent post on the [FIND] Investigations blog. We noticed a strange trend in a few of our P.I. cases this summer and turned our investigative skills to the question of infidelity. Specifically, whether certain environments–such as workplaces, schools, and in this case, a gym–can become incubators for cheating. As evidence, we…
I spent the morning and a good bit of the afternoon at a Social Media Jam Session at the Nashville Public Library, organized by Nashville author River Jordan. Authors Susan Gregg Gilmore and Darnell Arnoult, mystery writer J.T. Ellison, writer and Twitter guru Matthew Paul Turner, and agent Greg Daniel spoke about how to blog, tweet,…
Vali Forrister takes her Act Like a Girl creative writing camp into prison…and the results are startling.
Following up on last week’s post on people with big vision and even bigger energy, here’s an essay I wrote called “For the Grrrls” for HER Nashville magazine about my friend Vali Forrister’s autobiographical writing camp for teen girls. The fabulous program Vali created is called “Act Like a Grrrl,” and it’s been my great…
Growing Japanese Maples from Seed In my humble opinion, Japanese maples are superior to any other plant in the garden. They have more delicacy than the rarest of hybridized daylilies, more dignity than the sturdiest oak, and more variety than the much cross-bred hosta. But their cost often leaves us gasping With patience,…
Elle Macho on Nashville Public Radio–hear it here. “How long does a radio story take?” people sometimes ask me. Answer: Like a gas, it expands to fill the space available. With a firm deadline and some luck, it takes a few days to turn a story around. Other stories somehow manage to spread out over weeks…
Seven or eight years ago, I was thinking about my friends Manuel and Aida Terán, a wonderful couple from the indigenous Quichua region of Ecuador who travel to Nashville most winters to sell their handmade alpaca sweaters and scarves. They work very hard when they are here, standing outside for sometimes 10 to…
The Optimist’s Garden Autumn Clean-up It’s autumn in the garden, so I’m done. Right? Wrong. It’s time to put the garden to bed and prepare for spring. If winter ever comes, that is. . . It’s tempting to look at the ruin in October and November with arms akimbo,…
The Greenery 