Print stories, radio pieces, and a few random musings nobody will publish
A feature by Abby Ellin in this month’s issue of Psychology Today got me thinking about success, and how we measure it. Click here to read an excerpt from the article: “I Coulda Been a Contender,” a reported piece with elements of personal essay, about how so many of us feel we haven’t lived up…
Two weeks ago, I did a WPLN piece on a Middle-Tennessee event aimed at helping folks dispose of their old prescription drugs safely and legally. You can hear the audio, read a transcript, and see a slideshow here. Here’s how I know this is an idea whose time has come: the U.S. Senate just passed…
Check out the first installment of my new monthly column for Her Nashville – a profile of Christie Andrews, who started a Nashville nonprofit dedicated to advocating for kids with learning disabilities, regardless of their families’ income. Learning Matters, Inc. helps kids who are falling behind in school (and their families) navigate the educational system and…
Although a lot of folks I know seemed (and seem) to know exactly what they’re doing as they navigate their way through the immediate post-collegiate years, I certainly did not. For me, the early twenties were rather painful and uncertain years, fraught with my own insecurities and confusion about how to plot a course through…
Epic floods engulf my hometown, with me none the wiser, and I realize: when the waters rise, we only see our own little island
Hot off the presses: this article I wrote for the current issue of HER Nashville about my friend, the inimitable Renee Waters, Private Investigator. excerpt: “Full disclosure: I’m a Private Dick, a shamus, a gumshoe, a flatfoot. If you’re unfamiliar with the parlance of hard-boiled detective fiction…that’s ‘private investigator’ to you…” Click here to read the…
I just ran across this lovely personal blogpost by Natalia Antonova, a Moscow-based journalist, about Victory Day, a holiday commemorating the end of WWII and celebrated far more enthusiastically in Russia than it is in the other former Allied countries. She posts photos of celebrated Soviet WWII veterans (including pilot Maria Dolina and Antonova’s own…
A couple of years ago I read Michael Pollan’s excellent book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” on the politics and culture of food in America. He addresses the question, “What should we have for dinner?” – more complicated than it sounds in a nation obsessed with food, health, and fad dieting, but with the highest obesity rate…
The Greenery 