Steve McQueen in Bullitt I can remember first learning to drive, slipping behind the wheel of my dad's sleek, new, charcoal gray Ca...

Two things struck me while reading Something Pretty, Something Beautiful by Eric Barnes (Outpost19, 2013). The first thing is the movemen...

In THE IMPOSSIBLE LIVES OF GRETA WELLS (HarperCollins, 2013), Andrew Sean Greer has once again imagined a world for us to inhabit so well th...

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead or in-between is coincidence. Even those folks you think are real are ...

Alec Baldwin & Jerry Seinfeld get coffee Years ago, on our way to daycare, I spontaneously decided to give my daughter, G, the day ...

THE PATH OF MINOR PLANETS (Picador, 2001) by Andrew Sean Greer is a book about time. It's the story of how people might go away and then...

This week's "Because I Said So" column  is all heart. Believe it. Good seats still available on 'Believe Memphis' ...

This "Because I Said So" column first ran in The Commercial Appeal on May 26, 2011. A syllabus for summer vacations to rememb...

A reunion is a coming together, a reuniting of like minds that have shared like experiences. At the core of REUNION (2003,  Pantheon Books )...

I like that geeks have taken that word - geek - and empowered it. It has come to be synonymous with "aficionado" or "expert...

In the spring of 2008, at a time when I was pulling my hair out over the willfulness of a 2-year-old and with running my own business, I...

My nest may never empty, not even for a night. S spent the night with a friend last night, but GK had one sleep over here. At the last minut...

The kids' spring break was a couple of weeks ago and I had big plans. I was going to get on a plane by myself and fly to Antigua where I...

Way back in 1993, James Conaway published his memoir MEMPHIS AFTERNOONS. Not long after that, he came to Memphis for what was then the River...