Ran in Monday’s Tennessean: Nashville shouldn’t tolerate tacky decorations on Musica Nashville is blessed with many public art displays generously funded by private donors that help define our city as one of the centers of culture in the South. But lately, at one particular venue, a trend has emerged that is as frustrating as it [...]

The car door shut quickly as I tried to avoid holding up the oncoming traffic. It was dark, and it stood to reason that while the person careening my direction saw me, the car behind him might not have made the stop. Stepping up on to the sidewalk, a wind gust roared overhead. I squinted [...]

I am hardly equitable in my charity or kindness, nor is my affection always unconditional. But for my many faults — I was once called a “wannabe robocop hard-ass” by a junior camp counselor years ago — I like to think I am on the balance a good person. I do earn much of the [...]

Short weekend trips are probably my favorite kind of vacation. For one, we are often paralyzed by the thought of getting away from home for weeks at a time, both in the expense and the sheer amount of stress it would take to get us to a mental milestone to “let go” from our responsibilities. [...]

There is a familiar scent in Nashville on cold and rainy days in February around downtown Nashville. It is not particularly pleasant, the smell of hundreds of thousands of starlings leaving behind what birds often leave behind festering through the air. I strolled up to the Fifth Avenue entrance of the arena. Or at leas,t [...]

A few consecutive nights of crawling into bed in the early morning hours has finally caught up to me. I am not sure how I ever did it in a former life, nor do I know what pain awaits if I keep trying to relive that point in time. Self-inflicted sleepless nights are no way [...]