Features Columns

“At the top.”

So it seems like I get email upon email from people who read my column and want me to give them tips on how they can meet their favorite celebrity. While I am always up for sharing a few tips, one tip I thought I would never need to share would be to take advantage Read More

The gift of breakfast

As the saying goes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  I think that saying was meant for people who eat healthy things like grapefruit and scrambled eggs, not biscuits, sausage gravy and bacon. Eating healthy is not my forte. How can you resist the sound of bacon frying and the smell of Read More

Forever a fangirl

(WITH VIDEO) – While I guess it’s no secret, I have a habit of running into famous people. I am not the only person who enjoys the occasional run-in with a celeb. On the sad, but off chance I can’t make the trip to wherever my friends are headed for the next big concert, they Read More

Embrace the housewife

The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. As much as I hate gender stereotypes, especially those about women, there is one particular stereotype that I believe in: a woman’s ability to know her way around a kitchen. For decades, and probably centuries, a woman has been measured by how well she Read More

Leave the night on

On Feb. 23, I braved the remaining snow and ice and ventured to my home away from home, Nashville, Tenn., to see my absolute favorite up-and-coming country music act Sam Hunt. He announced his first headlining tour a few months ago and the closest date to Murray was Knoxville, Tenn., a five-hour drive. Back when Read More

A cupcake vendetta

Dear cupcake-lovers, quit being so pretentious and just eat a slice of cake. Although cake is always second to pie, it is still the original and most sought after dessert of all sweets. Cake is a staple for every celebration. What’s a birthday, wedding or graduation without cake? Furthermore, is there not a sense of Read More

CMT round two

As much as I absolutely love writing features stories and designing newspaper pages, journalism is not my major. I am a television production major through and through, so when the TV department had the opportunity to go and spend the day at CMT Monday, there was not a bone in my body that wasn’t tingling Read More

Let the cravings begin

In high school, I was a weird child. I wasn’t popular or an athlete or a nerd. I was a theater kid. You know, plays, musicals, miming (yes, miming), choir – the works. When I found myself in an English class filled with jocks and “popular” kids, I felt like I was in a drama Read More

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