Thoughts on Faith, Books, and Gardens
In high school, my group of friends went through a period of being slightly obsessed with quoting the holiday classic Christmas Vacation. It’s one of those movies to me that if I had just watched it on my own and moved on with life, it probably wouldn’t have been one of my favorites, but since... Continue Reading →
Last month I took a small road trip to check out another Tennessee State Park that I had never had the opportunity to visit before: Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park in Manchester, Tennessee. It was a dreary, rainy fall day, but it still made for a beautiful, refreshing hike in the rain through the... Continue Reading →
This fall I have decided to try and visit a few of Tennessee's beautiful state parks to enjoy my favorite season and watch the leaves of Tennessee change colors. As much as I love travel and have many places around the world I would love to explore, I have to think that middle Tennessee where... Continue Reading →
“I can’t imagine a man enjoying a book and only reading it once.” CS Lewis “It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” CS Lewis “Clearly, one must read every good book at least once every 10... Continue Reading →
In May of 2015, my husband and I traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to attend the 141th annual Kentucky Derby. Though we had been to Churchill Downs many times before and many times since, it was the first and so far only time we have ever seen the “run for the roses” in person and by... Continue Reading →
In her TED talk, Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her skewed view of literature as a child due to reading a limited representation of human stories. Growing up in Nigeria, she read British books, and when she began to write, she told stories of British characters who drank ginger beer because “the characters in the... Continue Reading →
On Easter weekend, fifty-five years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama and penned a letter that continues to hold significance culturally, socially, and spiritually. While in jail, Dr. King had been handed a newspaper that contained a letter from white Alabaman clergymen making an argument that although... Continue Reading →
Rachel F. Jean 