Joelle Phillips has been thinking of those summer days long ago in Auburn, Alabama – days too hot to play outside – when she and her sister would sit in the den, “slurping popsicles while my mother read stories to…
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Hannah Lavey can do Southern demure if she needs to: let’s credit that to growing up in an antebellum home in Demopolis, Alabama. But demure isn’t her natural habitat! This girlfriend has sexy flair. She’ll mix it up in a…
Katie and Kevin Crumbo give marriage a good name. Seriously – are they ever sharp with each other? I’m trying to figure out their secret. Maybe it’s Katie’s unflagging good cheer. Or Kevin’s kindness and patience. Her cute laugh? His warm smile?…
Timiny Braemer strikes me as fearless. Friendly? Yes. Kind? Yes. Also fearless. “No question!” laughs her buddy, Daphne Butler. “And she is so darn capable. If she wanted to, Timiny could run a Fortune 500 company, hike the Matterhorn with…
Caroline Trost wears a pink wool coat in the winter, a soft flared coat that turns every head in the coffee shop. She has a pretty pink coat and pretty blonde hair and a black and white dog named Roscoe…
Author Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2014 for Brown Girl Dreaming, a memoir in verse about growing up African American in the 1960s and 70s in South Carolina and New York. If you…
Amy Norton is the kind of friend you want to take a long walk with, especially if you’ve got something on your mind. She thinks deeply, speaks kindly, and walks gently in the world. If she’s not working or managing…
Desire takes many forms. Dallas Wilt has a desire to be free. “At the beginning of this academic year,” she says, “I established 2014-15 as the ‘put a bow on it’ year. My goals were to finish what I had…
Some people do what they are called to do, and the world is changed in ways big and small. Paul Vasterling, CEO and Artistic Director of Nashville Ballet, has grown Nashville Ballet from a small local company to a regional powerhouse arts…