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It’s almost here! The 35th annual Southern Festival Books brings over 150 authors to Nashville for interviews and conversation beginning tomorrow morning and running through Sunday. This year it’s being held on the grounds between the Tennessee State Museum and…

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The sea came calling this week, in word and song. I listened, from my parched garden, dried out by September’s sun. Emily Dickinson began… I Started Early – Took My Dog I started Early – Took my Dog – And…

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In a bad mood, I ordered a chocolate cherry smoothie from Clean Juice and went to pick it up. After that, I sat outside on the porch with the dogs in the waning afternoon. I checked in on a couple of…

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“St. Paul… was not the first to speak of life as a battle, nor was he the last; but familiar and hackneyed as the metaphor has become, it is also true,” Frederick Buechner begins, in one chapter of The Magnificent…

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“I am a part-time novelist who happens also to be a part-time Christian because part of the time seems to be the most I can manage to live out my faith: Christian part of the time when certain things seem…

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