Local Services

The Family Command Center

How Modern Homes Are Evolving To Bring Order, Function And Calm To Busy Family Life Article and Photography by Provided Behind every beautiful home is a closet working overtime. No matter how stunning the kitchen is or how perfectly styled the living room looks, real life usually happens somewhere between the mudroom, the pantry and the frantic search for a missing soccer cleat five minutes before school drop-off. For today’s families, luxury is no longer just about beautiful finishes or...

Life + Culture

Fletch, Fetch, Repeat

John "Fletch" Fletcher knows how to get pets to sit, stay, and strike a pose Article by Sophie Brock | Photography by John Fletcher / Get Pet Pics John Fletcher – known to many as Fletch – has loved animals for as long as he can remember and once dreamed of becoming a veterinarian. That changed the summer after fifth grade, when a fall from a hayloft left him with a broken wrist and an unexpected discovery of his parents' old Kodak 8mm film camera. He was hooked and started making little films...

Local Services

A Decade of Showing Up

How Nashville Community Connections turned one uniform drive into a lifeline for students Article by Sophie Brock | Photography by Photography Provided Back-to-school season stirs up a mix of emotions for students: the dread of homework, the excitement of reuniting with friends, and the hope of a fresh start. But for some kids, those feelings are a luxury. Before they can consider any of these things, they're wrestling with circumstances that no child should have to face: where their next meal...

Travel

The Traveler You're Building

Taking Your Kids On A Life-Changing Trip Is Always Worth The Investment Article by Caroline Shirley "You may not get this opportunity again. Go for it." My father said this to me at twenty-one, freshly graduated, with the "safe" road to grad school right there in front of me. I chose the other road. What he didn't know — what I didn't know — was that he wasn't giving me new advice. He was completing something that had started years earlier, on the other side of the world, at a table inside the...