As the hum of a distant idling train fills the cool night air, a line forms to enter Nightshade Manor in Midtown, a haunted house benefiting The Food Bank this Halloween season.
The house, designed by Kevin Gaiman, is decorated as the creepiest bed and breakfast ever, with each room having its own theme: graveyard, nursery, herpetarium and a kitchen used to make a sloppy batch of sausage ... (read more)
The scary truth is I don't really care much for Halloween.
As a kid, I would get excited in the lead-up to the night, planning the tricks and dreaming of the treats, coming up with costumes, like a skeleton or a ghost or Walter Mondale. But when it came down to the night of the festivities, I could take it or leave it ... (read more)
There is a battle that rages in our house.
It is nearly constant, with only the occasional respite when the peacemakers get involved to call a cease fire or a time out. For the most part, however, we live in a shrapnel-strewn, crater-pocked home theater of war ... (read more)
On the menu Friday morning at Calvary Episcopal Church Downtown: litigation, pancakes, copyright protection, sausage, malpractice suits, eggs, subpoenas, coffee and a side of jurisprudence.
It was the ninth annual Barrister's Pancake Breakfast benefiting the Memphis branch of the Mid-South Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. The breakfast drew about 300 seated guests ... (read more)
My kids get an earful every morning.After viewing breakfast-time family fare such as "Curious George" and "Clifford the Big Red Dog," with their themes of kindness and unconditional love, they pile into the car for 35 minutes in Memphis traffic.
As a parent, it is my job to protect my children. Yet there I am, strapping them onto a chunk of metal and rubber and hurtling them down Poplar at 8 a.m. ... (read more)
