Editor’s note: After opening the garage door, my dad walked into our parents’ home. I followed behind him as I always did. He towered over nine-year-old me, and it wasn’t until he stepped out of the way that I met Tanner, the three-year-old chow ...
The two of us embarked on an adventure into the Mississippi forest on a two-day runaway from the deadlines and the demands and the reality.  The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylanrolled out of our open cabin windows and carried along with the fall leaves in the light breeze. A limited ...
I'm still processing it. Â At 6 p.m. I'm standing in an off-white hallway. It's silent and cold. People are scurrying like mice through doors, in and out of dressing rooms. There's shouting in every direction. And then he turns the corner, two suited-men, worn-in grimace, by his side. Keith ...
I spent the first part of last summer touring across the west coast in a 15-passenger van with my band. We played shows in bars and living rooms and slept on floors and met people I’ll never meet again. Every mile made for a new memory. From standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon to confronting ...
Since the semester began, we’ve been working tirelessly to launch our new website. It’s long overdue, honestly, but better late than never. After countless hours of training videos and cussing at my computer, I’m elated to share with you what I’ve hoped for since I became editor-in-chief more ...
One of my earliest memories is curling up on the couch with my dad to watch Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. It was an atypical experience for a five-year-old. To this day, a movie hasn’t sent goose bumps racing up my arms quite like that one. Of course, I was terrified. I remember watching ...
Joshua Cannon is a spring 2015 USA TODAY collegiate correspondent. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY College. Louise Munford grins as she steps out of the Green Machine Mobile Food Market with a bag of fresh fruit and vegetables in hand. “I don’t have to pay anyone to take me to the ...
Doug Hagler lived by the textbook for most of his life. He was raised in a small town close to Clarksville, Tenn. After college, he went to seminary, got married, had three children and served as a United Methodist pastor for 10 years. And then everything changed. “I had to come to terms with who ...
Dee Billmeier sat on her living room couch as her daughter’s friend confessed that she was gay, a truth she had been hiding from her parents. The girl wanted to see how coming out would feel, according to Billmeier. It was the mid-1980s in Memphis, when the AIDS epidemic was rapidly spreading in the ...
For those of you who are registered voters, you’ll be (I hope) casting your vote in one of the most important Tennessee elections in recent history. Furthermore, your votes will serve as a “yes” or “no” on four amendments to the state constitution. Each one is colored in legislative jargon ...
