Willow Pond: From Winter to Spring
Willow Pond - varied layers of spirit-zapping winter. Winter: reviled by many, loved by me. Winter, an opportunity to go within. Winter, a struggle of the soul...Awaited redemption arrives in the light of the coming spring. Willow Pond - an early spring cleaning.*...
When Art Meets Autism
There's no coincidence that "The Journey with Grace" is one-third autism/disAbility and one-third arts. Few people who know me at this point in my life are aware that I graduated from an arts high school. They are unaware because I left a lifetime of...
Nashville Premiere: Horse Boy, The Movie
A British human rights journalist and horse trainer, his American wife--a university professor of psychology--and their son with autism "do something crazy." They travel across the world and ride horseback across Mongolia seeking a shamanic healing....Fodder...
Biscuits & Bellevue Will Never Be the Same
For an authentic taste of true Nashville, my out-of-town company always get a convertible top-down ride down Highway 100, a cruise down the Natchez Trace and a tummy-stuffing stop at The Loveless Cafe. It's there that national Southern culinary biscuit-makin'...
“Shame on You!” — ?
For nearly a year I've been reading a very visually appealing blog called Ordinary Courage by a very smart woman with a thought-provoking message. Happily, I stumbled upon a PBS interview on YouTube interviewing Dr. Brene Brown, Ph.D., talking about...
From Heartache to Hope: Featured Story
Photo--protected by copyright: From Heartache to Hope photographer and book collaborator, Rebekah Pope The Blade Family At 17, Logan Blade is somewhat intense--not much on chitchat. Earphones plugged in or not, the rising senior is tapping a perpetual beat with...
Raw Faith Premieres, Nashville Film Fest
Disclaimer: as a member of the local media with press credentials to the Nashville Film Festival, I am sometimes approached by filmmakers seeking coverage. I felt that this poignant-seeming film fit well into my themes here of spirituality, aging, grief, loss, etc.,...
