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Open Secrets and Broken Promises

…seeking help, they know that neither Michael nor Thad will change unless their lives blow up. With so much unspoken anxiety and unaddressed trauma, the parents welcome the chance to…

Love Letter to the Dollyverse

…star, but also to flee hardship and the confining strictures around her personal choices — also involved a powerful return home. Parton shows unshakeable commitment to her Smoky Mountain homeland…

Suffering in Coal Country

…were unconventional – X-ray readings, CT scans, unreported diagnoses. And while company defense attorneys had limitless financial resources and time to appeal, the fragile plaintiffs might be investing the final

Home, Happiness, and Hurt

A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South considers the varying societal access points for people of color below the Mason-Dixon line. From a broad…

What We’ll Miss and What We’ll Share

…through words alone. We often conceive of loss only as a falling away, but it is also a binding. Think of the groups whose only purpose is to bring together…

Baking Can Save You

“In the morning, there is a quiet light and an almost ethereal hum in a restaurant kitchen,” says Nashville writer Lisa Donovan in her new book, Our Lady of Perpetual

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