Print stories, radio pieces, and a few random musings nobody will publish
Love him because he’s so damn good. Hate him for the same reason. I first fell under his spell during a casual encounter with The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and then descended into hopeless obsession this summer, between the pages of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Here’s a brief passage from the first essay in Manhood for Amateurs,…
This summer, The Atlantic began running a weekly retrospective of World War Two—a series of photographs from different eras and theatres of that great war. The photographs are riveting, calamitous, heartrending. Seventy years ago this summer, the German army invaded the Soviet Union, breaking a non-aggression pact between Stalin and Hitler and raining unimaginable destruction upon Ukraine, Belarus,…
Twenty years ago today, tanks rumbled through the streets of Moscow. Do you remember where you were? Every generation has its historic “where were you when” moments. For ours, there’s the Challenger disaster (1/86), the fall of the Berlin Wall (11/89), and most vivid of all for me, the three-day Soviet coup in late summer…
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,…
From the archives: “Transitioned,” a WPLN series about Tennesseans adapting to an economy in flux.
Check out the ‘hood tomorrow on the 12South Home Tour, from 10:30 to 4:30, Saturday April 16th. Weather permitting, we’ll open the gate to Halcyon Garden on an informal basis. Drop by and see what’s growing, and observe the gardeners at work, potting our favorite annuals—like Persian Shield and dichondra. (Yep, it’s the annual Annual…
Tune into WPLN (Nashville Public Radio) 90.3fm tomorrow morning to hear Part 3 of “Transitioned,” a series about Tennesseans adapting to an economy in flux. In the first part (titled No One Can Survive Without Backup), we heard from Rachel Agee, who’s been unemployed for two years and may soon lose her house. In the story,…
The Greenery 