I met Todd in1991. I was waiting tables at the Bottom Line. I know that sounds like a strip club but it was actually a neighborhood pub in East Memphis where there now stands a TJ Mulligans. It was smaller when it was The Bottom Line - just the one long room with a bar that ran the length of one side. Paul, the guy who owned Bottom Line, also owned Poplar Lounge in Midtown. Poplar Lounge had a decades long hole-in-the-wall history until the 80s when Memphis State students dis

This morning on my commute to work, I listened to Yacht Rock - or, as I like to call it, "Clock Radio Music." Because it's the music I...

It's been a minute since I told my Hamilton story. That was many social media and blog platforms ago. My apologies for those of you who...

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that...

She had had more than her share of bad luck. The end of a 30-year marriage that had her feeling like she'd wasted her whole adult life....

( ahem) I have an announcement to make: I can now squat down and stand back up without touching anything or using my arms. You maybe...

I recognize that it would be totally against brand for me to point out something good and positive that came out of a bad situation. But...

First, a disclaimer: I don't watch reality TV. At all. Not competition shows, not singing shows, not Real Housewives, not Big Brother. I...

I was probably in my 40s when I learned that some people aren't "beach people." I had no idea that there are people who don't like the...

When I gave birth to my son, his Aunt Ellen called the hospital to congratulate us. I barely knew Chip's family. I'd met his (elderly)...