Off to the Races
A hot, noisy afternoon at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway doing story reconnaissance
A hot, noisy afternoon at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway doing story reconnaissance
Enlightenment comes in many forms
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,…
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…
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 met an articulate and vivacious high school teacher named Cindy at Art Crawl last fall. We hit it off. She’s a writer and a lover of classic literature, so we had lots to talk about. And then I noticed what she had for sale: T-shirts for book geeks. I fell in love with…
Just in time for Hal’s and my 9th anniversary (which we believe to be this Friday), and also for Valentine’s Day (which Hal insists is “Amateur Night”), here is the story of how Hal and I met and how I asked him to marry me on a rudimentary slip ‘n’ slide. Apparently, plenty of…