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Runnin' with the Devil

This is a picture of me in 1985: Okay, no. That's actually Valerie Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen in 1984. But to be fair, it took a...

Selflessness

I have a theory about selflessness, and it is illustrated through grocery carts. Grocery carts are the manifestation of whether we're...

Drive & Listen

I found an app called Drive and Listen that lets you drive through cities around the world while listening to local radio. It has done...

What Do You Value?

Back in my blogging heyday, I was lucky enough to see Brene Brown speak, at Blissdom (Find Your Bliss!) in Nashville in 2011. She talked...

What's in the News?

One of the ways that I try to control my anxiety is by limiting my exposure to the news. I am a J-school grad so I can't just bury my...

Songs of Summer

Those three supercharged months—marked by freedom and possibility and some life-changing moment of love or lust or longing for something...

Eww, David.

Taking a break from telling my stories to sing the praises of an amazing story I just enjoyed on television. So many of my friends...

Kill Your Heroes

In the early 2000s, I worked at a PR agency that was owned by a local Democratic elected official. One morning as I was driving to work,...

Bomb Fires

When I was a kid, I thought they were called Bomb Fires. That was before we moved to the Mississippi Coast where fires on the beach were...

Tell Me a Story

Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of...

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I'm a southern girl.

I grew up in Mississippi, lived in Memphis for 25 years, then moved to New Orleans in 2012 when my husband and I became emptynesters.

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