nashvillian pastoral

I never got any tattoos until I was thirty. Although I am impulsive, I also usually make pretty solid decisions, and so I knew that there wa...

My best friend Amanda, who in many ways has taught (still teaches) me the lessons that a mother or a sister might have, made this declarati...

I stood on the slanted, uneven floor in the doorway of my stepfather's mom's house.  Grandma Gaye is in her nineties now and sti...

Well, we made it.  We are road-weary travelers, dragging into the drive after seventeen days and 2700 miles.  We safely and successfully com...

I sat at a splash-pad in a community park in a lovely, gritty part of Lincoln, Nebraska.  I put my phone down.  I had thought about leav...