JANUARY 2016 - The thin black frame holds a place of prominence, centered on an eye-level shelf, accompanied by a tiny bronze, long-nosed...

JANUARY 2016 - Four months and 15 days ago we moved E into his dorm at Belmont University. It was a momentous and extraordinary day....

DECEMBER 2015 - My sweet cousin, already a candidate for World's Greatest Mom, posted on Facebook this picture of her family's nativity...

AUGUST 2015 - It's been a long, teary, quiet week since we dropped our boy at college. The herd of boys, young men really, who have...

AUGUST 2016 - We drove the 200 or so miles and pulled in front of Belmont Mansion where a chipper young coed with copper hair took E's...

AUGUST 2015 - It didn't hit me until I was in the middle of my summer Saturday routine. Walking back and forth, cutting horizontal...

AUGUST 2012 - Herbert Morehead loved his sister. His moving, angst-filled Facebook post about her recent passing is one the most...

JANUARY 2012 - There are many, many reasons why I love my son. I love the fact that he is a guitar genius, that he makes great grades...