I’m alone in my kitchen. It’s earrrrrly Sunday morning before Thanksgiving and it is quiet. The calm before the storm. I sit in silence and…
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The Art of Good Questioning
By Candace Echols Has the art of asking good questions gone the way of the landline? In addition to my own writing for Storyboard, I also…
Read More The Art of Good QuestioningA New Tradition of Southern Hospitality
By Candace Echols I am on the front end of doing something I’ve never done before: I am planning a series of feasts in our…
Read More A New Tradition of Southern HospitalityFall is here. At least I can write about that?
By Candace Echols Maybe you’d like to know what it feels like to have a column in which to share your thoughts and discover that…
Read More Fall is here. At least I can write about that?Home is for healing
By Candace Echols Almost every day, a new piece of bad news arrives on our doorstep. Insofar as I can tell, it’s the same with…
Read More Home is for healing‘Get out of town’ – Third Time’s Still a Charm
Paducah, Kentucky Words and photos by Ken Billett May 2021—Another big bike, this time a Harley, rumbles and grumbles under our second-floor window. With its…
Read More ‘Get out of town’ – Third Time’s Still a CharmElvis Week Revisited: Elvis is Everywhere
A ‘Little’ Memphis in the Verde Valley, AZ Time Capsules – this story was originally published in December 2019 Story and Photos By Ken Billett…
Read More Elvis Week Revisited: Elvis is EverywhereThe Historic Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah, Kentucky
Beginning with Paducah’s Hotel Metropolitan, Ken Billett’s new travel column takes us to historically significant places within a weekend’s drive from Memphis Words and photos…
Read More The Historic Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah, KentuckyLife with Zoe
Time Capsules Words and Zoe Photos By Ken Billett A woman, bundled up for the frigid November morning, rounded a cement pathway, heading in our…
Read More Life with ZoeStax in my Soul
By Ken Billett On a warm Saturday afternoon in late May, my birthday week celebration came to an end at the Stax Museum of American…
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