Chapter 16
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Being There

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly on juggling motherhood and career

The ripping pain that assails a mother with a demanding job is constant. Every day she is away from her children, it hurts, writes Mary Louise Kelly in her book…

On Account of Sex

In The Woman’s Hour, Elaine Weiss dissects the battle for women’s right to vote

…complex that struggle has been. Lyda Phillips is a veteran journalist who grew up in Memphis and has earned degrees from Northwestern, Columbia, and Vanderbilt universities. The author of two…

Trumpeter Swan

A life bird

According to the notes in my old National Geographic bird guide, on November 8, 1980, I saw a trumpeter swan at the Crabtree Nature Center in Barrington Hills, Illinois. A…

Winnowing

The gift of letting go

On November 30, 2020, we sold our house in East Nashville. Now we are embarked on a Great Adventure — driving a Nissan cargo van out to the desert Southwest…

American Crow to Great White Shark

The Southern Wildlife Watcher surveys the region’s creatures

Have you ever watched dragonflies skim across an algae-choked pond and wondered what they are seeking, how many different kinds there are, and what they were like as babies? Or,…

Dog in the Bottoms

A four-legged role model shows me how to live in the moment

Nearly every day I take my young dog, Zolene, for a walk in Shelby Bottoms, Nashville’s nearly 1,000-acre refuge for watery creatures and plants. A tidy girl with a black-and-white…

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