Half Full or Half Empty?
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Mixed feelings are so yesterday! Today, we preach. (Thank you, Niki Coffman, Lyn Fairchild Hawks, and Liza Graves.) From Niki Coffman: Two facts converged to influence my naming: I was born in 1984, and I was supposed to be a boy….
“I was something men and women could agree on. They didn’t like me in the same way, but they liked me with the same intensity, and were all fine with the other sex liking me, too. Isn’t that weird? Think…
Star Wars hit me hard as a kid. (Not alone, I know!) At age 9, I was still firmly rooted in fairy tales and schoolwork and a suburban Southern childhood. Independence took the form of riding my bike to the local Seven Eleven…
The day after it snowed, it was bracingly cold outside. A day the word “bone-chilling” was invented for (spoken as a true Southerner, I know). The bright sun helped only a little. “Are you sure we have to go outside?” I…
The Midnight Cool Revue, formerly scheduled for tonight at Parnassus, will take place Saturday, January 21st, at 6:30 p.m. instead. Happy Snow Day, Nashville friends! xo
This Friday night, the best show in town is at Parnassus. “The Midnight Cool Revue” features Lydia Peelle, an award-winning Nashville author, joined by her husband Ketch Secor of Grammy award-winning group Old Crow Medicine Show on banjo, fiddle, harmonica,…
Whatever you do today – working out, cleaning out, being nicer to your spouse – don’t ruin a good start to the year or a good mood by stopping in at the drugstore. What is sadder than the dregs of…
No one would ever accuse me of succeeding at New Year’s Resolutions. I finally came up with a better strategy: New Year’s Course Corrections. I tend to do better with that gentler, more navigational approach. Today, Dallas Wilt reflects on a…
Do any of us ever feel completely sure that we’re getting parenting right, or even mostly right? God knows I don’t. I always love to hear about a thought-provoking parenting book, and today, I’m thrilled for Julie Frist to share…