There’s no denying that COVID-19 changed our world. Many businesses didn’t survive the loss of business. And for many that did, the struggle continues. Many national chains are losing locations at a rapid clip. Many restaurants, convenience stores, and banks are closing. And it often happens overnight. You visit a store one day, and the…
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Research says that many major US cities are slowly sinking. Nashville is one of them. Other cities with the same issues include Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, and New York. Some of the reasons are natural, and others are man-made. Now, this isn’t happening quickly. Nashville is sinking one millimeter per year. In other cities, the…
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One of the first things you learn in journalism classes is to put the key information in the first paragraph of a story. If you don’t include the information up front, your professor will sternly remind you not to bury the lede. And yes, that’s the proper journalistic spelling for the word lead. That’s one…
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If you’re a baseball fan, yesterday’s biggest news didn’t happen on the field; it came from the commissioner’s office. Yesterday, they announced that 17 players previously banned from baseball are being reinstated. The catch: all of these former players were deceased. The real story is that with this change, both Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe…
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Many people go through life searching for happiness. Some say that there’s no simple solution. But what if I told you there’s a way for everyone to add more joy to their life? And this is something most of us can do with just one change to ur routine. Technically, these aren’t my thoughts, but…
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If you’ve followed national news over the last few weeks, you’ve likely heard stories of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, making arrests in hundreds of cities. They’ve been in Nashville for about a week. And as they’ve done everywhere, they’ve made hundreds of traffic stops and even stormed our lower Broadway…
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On Mother’s Day, it goes without saying that we make sure to honor our mother, the mother of our children, perhaps a mother-in-law, a stepmother, and even our grandmothers. But there’s someone else we should acknowledge today: Anna Jarvis. She is the woman who created Mother’s Day. Anna’s mother was a community organizer who worked…
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At their essence, numbers are simple. Now I’m not talking about complex mathematical equations. I’m talking about the digits on the front and back of your favorite athlete’s jersey. To many, those numbers may seem trivial. There’s only room for one or two on each jersey, so they must be under 100. Some athletes are…
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The Conclave has released the white smoke, which means we have a new pope, Leo the XIV. I understand that this is important if you’re Catholic, but why do so many others care? I’m not Catholic, but what’s the difference between any of them? My wife, who is Catholic, says there’s a lot of nuance…
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I’m sure you’re familiar with the term, deja vu. It’s the feeling of having experienced something before, despite it being a brand-new situation. I can’t count the number of times I’ve felt deja vu. Doctors explain why we feel it by comparing our brain to a computer hard drive. All these bits of memory spinning…
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