Shavin: Nevertheless, should you persist?
My friend Cindy from Cincinnati was here for a few days during a break from her busy art festival schedule.
Shavin: I fixed the dryer, and other news of the day
I fixed the dryer. Let me say this a few other ways in case you didn't get it.
Shavin: Two life-coaching heads are faster than one
I've hired a life coach.
Shavin: Mom on Facebook? Say goodbye to your privacy
Several years ago, I turned my mother onto Facebook.
Shavin: This is your brain on 60
Well, it happened: I turned 60. It was shocking when my husband did it this past July, but I wasn't the one having to have all the feels. I just watched from the sidelines, tossing bland reassurances his way and snuggling deeper into my cozy, enviably young, 59-ness.
Shavin: No matter how much changes, my ‘before’ and ‘after’ identities are still one and the same
My husband and I and our two dogs went to Finsterfest in Summerville, Georgia, last weekend.
Two new shelter directors talk animal welfare in Chattanooga
Ask 31-year-old Rebecca Bryan, the new director of the Chattanooga Humane Educational Society, why she does what she does, and she will tell you it's because she can't imagine not doing it.
Shavin: When truth is off the menu, you can’t beat the system
Last night at a restaurant some distance from Chattanooga, I did something I regret: I lodged a complaint.
Shavin: The false promise of the sheet pan supper
My husband keeps emailing me recipes for sheet pan suppers. For the uninitiated, a sheet pan supper happens when you take a large jelly roll pan, place a protein source on it (salmon, feta cheese, chicken, etc.), then scatter vegetables around it in a show of controlled disarray - nothing touching anything else, so everything can breathe and therefore brown. Then you shove the pan in a 400-degree oven and roast for 40 minutes or (in my case) until you smell something burning.
The Fabric of Our Memories: The outfits that anchor pivotal moments for 5 Chattanoogans
Clothes are magical. They cover up our nakedness while revealing our individuality. They can make us feel more or less attractive than we are, more or less mature or youthful, and in or out of step with society, culture, the world.
