by Tina Neeley | May 11, 2024 | Cover
AS YOU look from your desk to the nearby window, nature’s blossoming limbs wave to you. The birdsong and blue sky seem to defy the concrete and office buildings surrounding you, but the stress inside pulls you back into reality. Notification dings from your phone and...
by Tina Neeley | Apr 13, 2024 | Cover
AMID THE inviting storefronts on the historic Shelbyville square, The Pomegranate Shoppe is a vibrant surprise for anyone yet to open its door. Forget chain stores and predictable aisles. Unlike warehouse stock lined up on sterile shelving, treasures await at The...
by Tina Neeley | Mar 8, 2024 | Cover
FROM HER desk in the office of Liberty School, Margaret Dalton watches as the landscape of education changes. She sees, too, generations of learners passing through on their way to high school and adulthood, where their children and their children’s children often...
by Tina Neeley | Feb 10, 2024 | Cover
IN A waiting room filled with patients and their families at Nashville’s Sarah Cannon Center, a cancer center named for Minnie Pearl, Miriam Carrick did what she’s always done. She’s not one to mind waiting, happy to busy her hands with her knitting. Her husband,...
by Tina Neeley | Jan 17, 2024 | Cover
FORTY YEARS ago, Ed and Joan Gray signed up for the journey of a lifetime. From navigating the early challenges of blending families to exploring the world of education and later venturing on global travels, the Grays have covered the immeasurable territory of their...
by Tina Neeley | Dec 16, 2023 | Cover
A LIFE OF service begins with a single decision and builds with each next choice. Service in the field of public safety multiplies the reach of those decisions and is life-saving in many cases. In 1992, Mike Clements made a seemingly ordinary decision — to...