Farewell to HER Nashville Magazine
Farewell to HER Nashville, a Nashville women’s magazine that rejected the “stilettos, sex and flat abs” print model
Guest Post—Launching into the Writing Life
Guest post by a young writer with a great deal of hustle.
Robin Riddell’s Gift
Robin Riddell’s gift is creating the perfect mix of friends, food, and holiday cheer.
Pink Ribbon Pushback
The best stories usually come looking for me. Last spring, an acquaintance called and asked me out for a drink. Amy Patterson (right) is kind of an icon in this town. She’s gorgeous, a successful stylist and motion picture costumer, and for years she owned a marvelous vintage boutique called Venus and Mars. I knew…
March Features: People Who Improve the Planet
These two women not only make their corner of the world better, they thrive in the doing of it. And “thrive,” in this sense, has nothing to do with wealth, fame, or reality television.
Behind the Story – Kate Mills’s “Broken Compass”
The minute I walked into Kate Mills’s Inglewood house on a hot morning last July, I knew we were going to “get” each other. First of all, she had a bagel from Bagel Face ready to go, just for me. Such things never fail to impress. And then there was the house itself:…
On Food and Love, addendum
Work took Hal and me back to Florida last week: me to Orlando and Miami for a Women in Aviation conference and a speaking engagement there, Hal to Pensacola to investigate some real estate holdings. After I picked Hal up at JAX airport on Friday, we cruised straight to Apalachicola, where we’d made new friends…
“Act Like a Grrrl” – Ideas that Grow
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…
The Greenery 