In just a bit, I’m off to the air­port and on to Ten­nessee for the gath­er­ing of my father’s fam­ily, the Tay­lors of Taber­na­cle. Each year, 500 or so of my cousins con­verge on his home town from all over … Con­tinue read­ing →

May has been a tough month. I’m an 8th gen­er­a­tion Ten­nessean and a for­mer Nashvil­lian, and watch­ing what the floods have done to my beau­ti­ful state breaks my heart. Mys­tery writer J.T. Elli­son lives in Nashville and writes mov­ingly about what … Con­tinue read­ing →

One of the rea­sons I mar­ried my bril­liant hus­band is because he’s funny. Really funny. Here’s the flash project, Matt Sings, he just fin­ished for one of his classes tomor­row. See if you don’t think it’s funny, too.

Yes­ter­day was my birth­day, and I spent it doing things I love, which is what you should do on your birth­day. There’s some­thing won­der­ful and almost deca­dent about going to the movies in the morn­ing, so I went to a … Con­tinue read­ing →

I couldn’t post about my cat’s feet last night and not post about one of the great moments in his­tory today. Mid­day today, Barack Obama took the oath of office as pres­i­dent of the United States. Watch­ing the inau­gu­ra­tion from the … Con­tinue read­ing →