Step 1: Lower your standards
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Nashville’s murals are proof that my daughters are surrounded by greatness — and proof of North Nashville’s resilience
On the wonder and musicality of womanhood
What one small appliance taught me about self-acceptance
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I know I’m getting old because I’ve started to love the music that plays at Kroger
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My father’s finest skill is simply opening the car door and letting his children run
I am Zambian, a woman and Black. That is my superpower.
I am a queer, progressive, female minister, which makes dating … tricky
Through letter writing, my grandmother offered a soft place for my thoughts to land
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On trying to embrace aging without the negative self-talk that has plagued me for most of my life
On a half-century of abortion rights
I responded to trauma by jumping out of a plane
On the joy of Lizzo’s reality show Watch Out for the Big Grrrls
Getting to know my birth mother, and finding there’s always enough love to go around
A North Nashvillian reflects on the night Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated — and on the cost of freedom
My husband has Alzheimer’s, and I’m keeping our memories alive for both of us
If we critically examine the lasting damage our mothers cause, are we bad daughters?
How a relationship detox helped me face the unbearable lightness of being alone
Goodbye to mixing the personal and the professional
On seeing myself for the first time in a long time
The last time I compassionately killed a plant, it was in conjunction with a breakup
This is a story of ‘boy meets girl’ — but it’s not that kind of love story
On planning my big, fat, Indian wedding — and reckoning with my mother’s hopes and dreams
On surviving depression with my cat by my side
How tweeting about Metro government happenings has helped me manage my social anxiety
Breakups can really haunt you, but revenge is its own kind of magic
A reluctant expert on why the person who hurts you most can also be the most difficult to leave
People survive losing two kids. I think about those parents often. And then I think about my son.
Why I quit my job during the pandemic — and why I went back
Quarantine revealed a lot about my relationship, including my husband’s abuse
On holding fast to memories in an ever-changing city
On the pleasures of trusting my instincts in the kitchen
Why I stopped trying to lose weight, analyzed my internal fatphobia and let go of the pressure to lose it all for ‘hot girl summer’
If women want to gather here in Nashville and be messy together, I say welcome
Or how Courtney Love helped me return to writing after I became a mother
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Before the pandemic, I defined myself by the amount of pain I could tolerate — I’m choosing not to do that anymore
On one woman’s quest to ‘judge softly’
On getting naked for art and myself
On the soothing effect of British reality television
On mourning, when the rituals of death have been stolen by the circumstances of the year
On one woman’s journey to radical self-love
I’m tired of wondering if the man I’m cheering for assaulted a woman
I fear that I won’t be able to teach them that words are more powerful than fists, that we can disagree in nonviolent ways
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