>This post originally appeared on the Nashville Scene blog. Liz Garrigan’s column on WKRN’s plan to pay bloggers for their video is generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere this week. At the station’s blogger meet-up recently, I got a chance to talk to WKRN News Director Steve Sabato about the idea and he […]

>”Amanda’s been going to Zoo Babies once a week and she just started music classes, too. She’s having so much fun. And she’s learning all about music tones and rhythm.” “Noah is taking Yoga Fun at Gymboree. He’s much more limber than he was at 18 months.” I’ve been hearing these conversations ever since attending […]

>And now, it’s time for my latest Nashville Scene column. The background to this particular column: I live in Bellevue, a Nashville neighborhood which is about 20 minutes from downtown. Here, the word ‘Bellevue’ immediately conjures up someone who’s white, middle class, and living in a subdivision. And that’s generally pretty accurate. The good thing […]

> Leave a two-year-old with her father for a few hours and you can expect some unpleasant surprises upon your return. Maybe you’ll find peanut butter tangled in her hair and crammed up her nose. Maybe she’ll have decorated three of your coveted first editions with crayon squiggles. Maybe she’ll have learned a new phrase. […]

>I’ve always thought of my cul-de-sac as a quiet one, filled with normal homeowners who kept their grass suitably tended and minded their own damn bidness. That is until the other night, when I went to a backyard barbeque at my next-door neighbor’s house. It was a small gathering, with only three neighborhood couples present. […]

>After several dismal attempts at potty training Baby, I had pretty much resigned myself to the reality that she would be in diapers for the rest of her life. At least, judging from the inordinate number of Googlers looking for “adult diaper patterns” who end up here, she wouldn’t be alone. Truthfully, the only potty […]

“We’ve got a problem,” Hubs said the other day as he came in from the garage. “What?” I asked. “You know how the garbage truck didn’t come on Tuesday because it was the 4th? Well, I just lifted the lid of the trashcan out there and all these white things fell off the lid.” “Nooooo…” […]

On to what you really want to hear about- the Blog Party! Busy Mom and I met at my house and rode to the party together. Thank God. Not only did she know exactly how to get to the downtown bar and where to park, but we gabbed all the way there, stopping only when […]

>Okay, so I’ll write about My First Blog Party tomorrow, I promise, but first, I offer up a little controversy for your perusal. Because I know you all love controversy and I can’t say I blame you. I try to write about once a week for the Nashville Scene‘s blog, Pith in the Wind. For […]

>This post originally appeared on the Nashville Scene blog, where it made many humorless library patrons very, very angry. I’m pretty sure that I’m Public Library Enemy Number One. For years, I’ve been checking out books and DVDs with wild abandon and then, uh, keeping them. For months. And now, the Library has finally thrown […]