Photo of the Day: Week 18


A lover of variety and novelty, it’s not often I return to a place I’ve been before.  This week was worth it!

Guns, God & a God-Awful Amount of Work


She walked up to me at a mall. A big mall. The Opry Mills Mall near the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville Tennessee. Her youthful face, shiny blonde hair, hooded sweatshirt, and bright smile said late teens, maybe early 20’s.

What I Learned at a Trump Event in the South


When our Nashville couchsurfing hosts warned us getting around the city on Wednesday might be difficult because the President would be in town, my foreign friend immediately asked if we could attend.   I said we’d have to get tickets and they probably would be sold out already.   She googled and had free vouchers in hand within five minutes.