Shopping of the Day
Headed to Nashville for some shopping? Check out the Tennessean’s shopping Web site at nashvilleshopping.com to make sure you don’t waste your trip. This is a fun and useful look at deals, trends and what’s hot and what’s not in the Music City.
Wish more newspapers were as successful with print/online/real life integration. This is a perfect example of how to do it — and we readers end up with more shoes! It’s win-win!!!
Cheer of the Day
Even if we cannot agree on politics, can we all at least agree that Michael Phelps is one of the greatest athletes ever?
I thought so.
Like other former swim parents — and other parents who’ve done the rounds of 6 a.m./6 p.m. practices and all-day meets/games/matches in whatever sport their children have chosen — watching Phelps and his mom brings back tons of chlorine-soaked memories. Here’s what I wrote about that in my TimesDaily column this past Friday: http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080815/NEWS/808150301/1004/life
About
Cathy Wood is a freelance writer and columnist based in Muscle Shoals, Ala. For more than 10 years she was a features writer and columnist for the TimesDaily, in Florence, Ala.,
Me and my messy bulletin board.
after first starting work there in 1997 as an advertorial writer and then as a clerk. Her writing has appeared in many newspapers across the country through the New York Times Regional Newspapers Group. Her areas of specialty include fashion, books, food, decorating, shopping, entertaining, local personalities and arts. Her weekly column, which appears on Fridays in the TimesDaily at www.timesdaily.com, is a humorous look at her life –- and the lives of her two 20-something daughters, four cats, one dazzlingly cute grandchild and her husband of four years, a sports editor who is kind and well-meaning but often befuddled about such things as women’s shoes and which day to take out the garbage. She also writes for Shoals Woman and other TimesDaily and regional magazines and has recently dipped her (monthly pedicured) toes into the blogging world. She’s a 1979 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tenn., where she was editor of the school newspaper, Sidelines. She also has worked at the Manchester Times, in Manchester, Tenn., and the Daily-Post Athenian, in Athens, Tenn. E-mail cathylwood@gmail.com
– John Lewis Pitts
