Nashville has everything these days! Everything! Except of course a beach. Noticeably missing. Monica McDougall and I just hate that. Monica enjoyed an idyllic childhood in the small coastal town of Fairhope, Alabama, and misses the water terribly. She spends…
Did you know that there is a small but thriving community of South African expats in Nashville? One of the honorary members is Eva Melusine Thieme, who lived in Johannesburg for three years with her husband and four children. Among other adventures, Sine…
Carolyn Hall might surprise you. She’s a Southern Belle and a Morehead Scholar. If she had to spend $10,000 in ten minutes, she’d invest it in a super-cool startup or hop a plane to Morocco. No one else in her…
“We value our solitude until it pinches,” writes Edward Hoagland in the spring issue of The American Scholar magazine. His essay “On Loneliness” ruminates on the ways we choose – and need – to live both in community and in solitude….
It’s hard to go wrong giving Mom a book, but it’s not impossible. Let me help you avoid one high risk gift! You’ve likely noticed Frog Music, by Emma Donoghue, one of the big spring reads prominently featured at your local…
Say you’re stranded on a desert island. With Carolyn Taylor. Not only will she figure out a way to send morse code signals to ships and satellites, she will also identify and help you avoid poisonous vegetation. In the meanwhile…
1. You will cry and it is embarrassing to cry while reading on a plane. 2. You will regret your choice of accommodations. Claire Cameron’s new novel, The Bear, reminded me of one of the reasons I’m not a camper. It’s also…
Thank you, Farrell Mason, for your lovely new novel, The Angel and the Raven. A friend bought it for me at Parnassus yesterday and pressed it into my hands with her warmest recommendation. I have spent this afternoon outside reading…
Cheryl Lloyd runs like lightning when she’s not running after her three children or caring for patients in Oxford, North Carolina. She loves to run on a trail and is slightly embarrassed that she recently binge-watched all five seasons of…