This past weekend, we went to Alabama on what was the quickest weekend in the history of quick Alabama weekends. We woke up at 5am Friday to fly over a period of 10 hours and three connections and found ourselves in Birmingham come dinnertime. While the real reason we were there was for another glorious [...]
It’s Football Time in Tennessee!
September 6, 2010 By 13 Comments
When I decided to transfer schools just for my journalism classes—Sewanee was liberal arts and, thus, had no specific majors as such—and wound up at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, I hemmed and hawed and hemmed some more. Practically everyone I know from my hometown goes there (there were 30 alone from my graduating [...]
How to Throw a Backyard Wedding
August 30, 2010 By 21 Comments
What’s that you say? You thought my talk of all things wedding was over? Not just! (In my defense, I hate being that girl who’s still going on and on about her wedding three months after the fact, but you guys keeping asking! And I like to give the people what they want.) Because, you [...]
Photo Friday: Jonesborough, Tennessee
August 6, 2010 By 20 Comments
It’s sad how you can live in a state most of your life and never explore half of its eccentricities, beauty and quirks. This is my relationship with Jonesborough: a missed connection—until now. In fact, I didn’t even know the lovely town existed until I wrote my Tennessee Curiosities book last winter and included the [...]
Not Just Your Average Wedding
June 23, 2010 By 24 Comments
No, we’re not talking about my wedding again. (That will come in due time when we get the proofs back from the photographer!) Rather, SVV and I flew a bazillion hours back from Taiwan starting Thursday to make it to my good friend Lahla’s wedding in East Tennessee on Saturday. Because who would have wanted [...]
Photo Friday: Lynchburg, Tennessee
June 4, 2010 By 10 Comments
In anticipation of my two-and-a-half weeks back in Tennessee at the end of the month—and getting to show SVV’s parents the ropes in their foray into Southern culture—I dipped into my archives and found these photos of the great town of Lynchburg. Now, most people around the world have heard of Lynchburg for one reason: [...]
We Are Nashville
May 4, 2010 By 8 Comments
Apologies for a minor blog hiatus (see: LA for work, wedding in 17 days, house guest through Saturday). I hate to go more than a few days without posting, and as my home, Tennessee, and all of its people have been weighing heavily on my mind since Saturday, I’d thought I’d share with you this [...]
Photo Friday: New Orleans, Louisiana
March 19, 2010 By 29 Comments
Two weeks ago, I jetted off for the world’s quickest weekend trip to New Orleans. But, hey, I had a free round-trip United ticket to use, leftover from one of the bazillion times they’ve left me stranded in transit, and there was a bigger task at hand: my bachelorette weekend. Now before you think this [...]
The Age of Innocence
February 24, 2010 By 10 Comments
A week back in Birmingham and Memphis meant a week with this little angel, she of piercing blue eyes and a magnificent halo of boingy curls. Isn’t she divine? And a week with this little gal meant lots of photoshoots, which meant my final photography project was done on the first day. (Oh, I didn’t [...]
Small Town, Big Hearts
January 5, 2010 By 19 Comments
Growing up, I complained ad nauseam about living in such a small town. The local Wal-Mart and bowling alley were about all we had going for us on the weekends (for once, I don’t exaggerate). Currently, there’s a rundown mall that no longer even boasts a legit clothing store (R.I.P. Dillard’s). You have to drive [...]
