At the Table When Company Comes

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, History Lessons

It has been an extraordinary few days. November 4, 2008, just after 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, barely the dinner hour for those of us who live in the Pacific Northwest, Barack Obama was declared the 44th President of the United States. The day after, Wednesday, November 5th, was like a…

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Travel Diary: Impressions of Nashville and Memphis

Nancy Flynn Arts & Culture, Stream of Consciousness Archive, Travel

We’ve been back two days from our trip to western Tennessee, Nashville then Memphis via the Natchez Trace. I’m finding it hard to construct a coherent narrative of everything we saw and did.Maybe that’s all a travel tale ever really is, a patchwork of sights, tastes, and sounds?…

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