Being There
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…
Search Results for: Lyda Phillips
On Account of Sex
…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
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
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
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
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…
