If you find a Nashville native and ask one of us about Opryland, you’ll probably hear us wax poetic with nostalgia for a park that now lives only in our collective memory. What few seem to remember is the clumsy nature of its rushed closure by ownership group Gaylord Entertainment 25 years ago this month.

If you find a Nashville native and ask one of us about Opryland, you’ll probably hear us wax poetic with nostalgia for a park that now lives only in our collective memory. What few seem to remember is the clumsy nature of its rushed closure by ownership group Gaylord Entertainment 25 years ago this month.

Tennessee’s Republicans seem obsessed with using the power of government to bully transgender folks. It has to stop.

Here we go again. A terrible thing has happened to a Tennessee woman, because of Tennessee’s Republican policies. 

The nation heartbreakingly watched recently as media outlets covered the brutal kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher in Memphis. Eliza was kidnapped off the street at 4:30 a.m. during a marathon training run. 

Recently, we’ve learned that the serial monster arrested for the crime kidnapped and raped another woman in November of 2021, but wasn’t caught because nobody bothered to run the DNA. They already had his DNA on file from his first felony kidnapping back in 2000.

I am leaving Tennessee.

This place is my home. I grew up here, learning to ride horses and play music in the rolling hills around Nashville, boating on the TVA lakes in Celina and Gallatin, going to Opryland, and mentoring Girl Scouts at Camp Sycamore Hills. I am entirely educated by Tennessee schools. I am an alum of Brentwood High School, UTK, MTSU, and Vanderbilt. I have been able to reach a high degree of success and contentment here, in Tennessee. The place I call home.

Recent events mean that I cannot stay. I must flee.

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