Author: Annie

HUSK : You need to eat here.

So as I told you last week when I listed my favorite Nashville fancy dinner places, HUSK just opened and has already leapt to the top five dinners I’ve had in this town. Me and these two jokers, Keenan and Connor, used this dinner as an opportunity to celebrate their graduation from Vanderbilt, though we

TOP 5 FRIDAY: Dine fine in Nashville.

TOP 5 FRIDAY is when we each list five of our favorite things, depending on the topic. Feel free to join in via the comments or by posting on your own blog and linking back here. Play along. It’s Friday. . . . . . Two posts that continue to be super popular here are

Afternoon Distraction : Stories We Tell

Lyndsay and I saw this documentary last night, Stories We Tell, and it is absolutely genius and heartbreaking and beautiful and redemptive and we both cried. So. There’s that. While this isn’t today afternoon distraction in it’s purest Annie-is-wasting-her-life-on-the-internet form, I have spent lots of time today reading up on this director and her other

Write on her walls.

(photo credit: Ioanna Raptis) I read this article yesterday about Operation Beautiful at York Middle School. To summarize, these girls took the idea of Operation Beautiful, leaving encouraging sticky notes around for other girls, and decided to paint permanent ones in their middle school bathrooms. So after school, the fifth grade girls worked with the eighth

I’m here. Just in case you were concerned.

Because, you know, I’m the worst blogger in the history of June 2013. I’m not one for making excuses [yes I am], but here are some solid reasons why the internet has not won my attention lately: 1. I have a book due to Zondervan in 20 days. And I have 20,000 words of said

TOP 5 FRIDAY: Summer Reading List 2013

TOP 5 FRIDAY is when we each list five of our favorite things, depending on the topic. Feel free to join in via the comments or by posting on your own blog and linking back here. Play along. It’s Friday. . . . . . I love reading. You know this. But I REALLY love