The Art of Living in an Impermanent World
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My husband and I have daughters who are 13 and 15 years old. I think about the kidnapped girls in Nigeria every day. I think Peggy Noonan had it exactly right in her column in the Wall Street Journal on…
My husband and I have daughters who are 13 and 15 years old. I think about the kidnapped girls in Nigeria every day. I think Peggy Noonan had it exactly right in her column in the Wall Street Journal on…
Missy Wallace is a proud Texan by birth and a proud Nashvillian by choice, with stops along the way in Charlotte, Chicago, Southeast Asia, and New York City. She and husband Paul now love their home deep in the woods….
Many of us have felt deep currents in life that seem to carry and convey tremendous mystery. Underneath us – around us – they flow – and we sense them without understanding. We wonder. We seek. We do not always find….
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…