Being a “resident” (speaker) at the House of Beautiful Business was a unique and memorable experience: My sessions were well attended and people were engaged: This was my first time in Lisbon — it was gorgeous. I already want to
Not Beautiful
“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.” — John Cage I’ve been traveling a lot these
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Sometimes you find yourself standing in a drugstore checkout line with fully-decked-out Halloween revelers at 2:30am when you get home from a lovely leisurely hangout with friends only to realize you have to run out to buy a toilet plunger.
Welcoming #googlefiber to #Nashville!

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New Year’s Eve in Germantown, Nashville

In years past we had a sausage drop, and then there was the year a replica of the Hindenburg crashed into the street at midnight, so this is kind of tame by comparison. from Instagram http://ift.tt/13VLrn9
Cold mornings in Nashville make me miss cold mornings in New York. ☕️
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Visiting Nashville? Here’s the (former) local’s guide to what’s cool.
In the past year, a few friends from former towns and workplaces have begun to visit Nashville. I couldn’t be more delighted, of course – I want to show off my adopted hometown – but invariably, the preparatory emails involve some sort of “what sh…
One of those elusive Big City Benefits
People in Nashville seem to be fond of saying that Nashville is a big city with a small town feel. Which is charming enough, except that anyone who’s lived in a city that could proportionally be called “big” — as in, say, over 1 million people wi…
Cicada-skepticism: new Nashville meme?
everyone in nashville keeps freaking out about the cicada invasion… i still haven’t seen (or heard) a single one. via lizhadaway.tumblr.com Just come by my house and I’ll show you enough cicadas to creep you out for the rest of the summer.
Another Nashvillian’s perspective, America
Here’s the deal with our town. We have one particular industry here, the music industry, which isn’t really that big in the grand scheme of things, that has made a lot of money putting out an image that we’re a bunch of inbred hillbilly yokels who…