GraceArt Featured @ Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Juried Exhibition
"Green & Yellow" by Grace Walker Goad. Available for purchase. For the sixteenth consecutive year, work by local artists with disabilities is showcased in the exhibit “Creative Expressions XVI.” The annual art exhibit offers artists with disabilities an...
Gone to the Beach
The house sitter's holding fort. We've gone to the beach for fall break. Back when I used to vacation alone, I began a tradition of photographing my tootsies. My "I was there" photo signature. The above was taken during our chilly fall break last...
Walking Through Grief
Many, if not most of us, do not know about or much about hospice...until there comes a need for it in our lives. There came a need in our family's life, when my mother died nearly two years ago. Kind, knowledgeable, compassionate. Hospice was there. Quietly,...
Family Secrets
Photo: Eric Skiff Ssssh. Life is Good. We are happy. Just as there's sweet, there's also a hint of bitter. Sleep is needed. Sleep is interrupted. Sometimes sleep does not come for hours. And hours. Tummies are hungry and words cannot communicate. Sometimes the...
Do A Little Good
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” --Archbishop Desmond Tutu Credits to organizer and blogger Tanna Clark of Complete Organizing Solutions who featured this quote in her "Monday's...
“The Disadvantage of Minority Status”
The following is excerpted from Bill Peach's Random Thoughts: Politics, Preaching and Philosophy. Peach, above, is author of several books--including one by the aforementioned blog title. Peach is shown here at the 2009 debut of the anthology of local writers:...
Forks Over Knives Pre-Screening 10/6
I intend to have more on this film later....