Take Time for Tennessee
I have come to love Tennessee with its mountains and rivers, valleys and glens, and the voice of its people that sounds like a…
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Bramble Berry Cocktail
Ingredients 2 oz. gin 1 1/2 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 – 2 teaspoons simple syrup 1/2 oz. crème de mure Lemon half-moon, garnish Fresh…
Play for Luke, The Luke Siegel Story
July 2015 was set to be a big month for the Tim Siegel family of Lubbock, Texas. Tim, the head men’s tennis coach at…
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Where We Ate
My purpose in writing this story is to recall just a few of the places my friends, family, and I frequented in my younger…
Clock Dance
By Anne Tyler Alfred A. Knopf | 292 pages | $27 Anne Tyler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary icon, takes the ordinary lives of ordinary…
Take Time for Tennessee
I have come to love Tennessee with its mountains and rivers, valleys and glens, and the voice of its people that sounds like a…
I Delight
This morning I woke up to a to-do list that weighs 9,000 pounds. I feel the weight of it resting on my shoulders, and…
Bramble Berry Cocktail
Ingredients 2 oz. gin 1 1/2 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 – 2 teaspoons simple syrup 1/2 oz. crème de mure Lemon half-moon, garnish Fresh…
Play for Luke, The Luke Siegel Story
July 2015 was set to be a big month for the Tim Siegel family of Lubbock, Texas. Tim, the head men’s tennis coach at…
The Current Between Us
We had been to a specialist that morning with our daughter, Penny, who had started sleepwalking at six years old. Winn and I were…
Winning the Game of Golf
My favorite hole at Winn Mountain is number four. It is a par three; you can see the flag from the tee box. It…
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s SPA CON!
By day, Amy Shipman is a mild-mannered high school librarian. The demure blonde maintains racks of books and periodicals for the benefit of young…