Who I Met Today

Nashville Based Blog Exploring People, Their Stories, and What We Can Learn From Each Other
Fly fishing retreats for breast cancer patients and survivors

Jen Lofgren – Casting For Recovery

To me, fly fishing seems incredibly difficult.  Wading in chilly waters, you patiently wait for a hungry trout to nibble on an elaborate gadget composed of hair or feathers.  According to Jen Lofgren, the sport doesn’t have to be complicated or intimidating.  “Besides,” she adds, “you quickly learn to love simply being outdoors, enjoying the tranquility and your beautiful surroundings.  After all, trout don’t live in ugly places!” Back in

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Matt Russo and The Gambling Stick BBQ Trailer

According to Matt Russo, “a gambling stick is an old Appalachian name for a stick used to hang a pig from the limb of a tree. Threaded through the heels of the pig, the stick supports its weight while the animal is harvested.”  The gamble, and hope, is the stick can handle the pig’s weight, and the animal will not come tumbling down. In a parking lot in trendy East

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Dylan Owens, Denver music journalist, talks about freelance writing and articles in Rolling Stone

Dylan Owens – Music Journalist

Dylan Owens compares his job to owning a fast and sophisticated Ducati motorcycle.   Both look really cool and sound glamorous to have.   His career, and the sport bike, can get you to some fun places.  Sometimes both will park you right outside the real action, peering in from a distance.  And – truth be told – you have to really love them to be able to afford either

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Vic Scoggin and his goal to make the Cumberland the cleanest major river in America

Vic Scoggin – Save the Cumberland River

We’ve all heard it is good to have a passion, a driving force motivating us to get up and moving each morning. Vic Scoggin’s love affair with a river, flowing almost 700 miles through the hills of Kentucky and Tennessee, began at an early age.  Growing up along the winding Cumberland River in Tennessee, the waterway was Vic’s playground.  “I learned to swim, fish, scuba dive – my life revolved

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Dustin Williams, Violin Maker in Nashville, TN

Meet Dustin Williams – Violin Maker

As we wander through the charming, historic Music Row building with the rickety staircases and old-world architecture, Dustin Williams proudly explains, “Everything we have here we fully expect to last 200 years.” The older they get, the more valuable. The more they are played, the better they sound.  “We are lucky to be the caretakers of these beautiful instruments.”

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