Alison James

One of my favorite songs from my childhood is “Sweet Summer” by Diamond Rio. I listened almost exclusively to country music throughout my childhood an...

According to the good old Internet, a university professor named Dr. Archana Bharti once pointed out, “There are as many types of columns as there are...

Right now my house is a bit of a shambles. We’re doing some remodeling, adding onto the back of the house, and that means a number of pieces of furnit...

What’s in a name? This question was posed by playwright and poet William Shakespeare in “Romeo and Juliet” in the mid-1590s, and it is the one we here...

Some of y’all are missing out on an amazing resource we have available to us, and I just want to make sure you know about it. Emily Mays, a Franklin C...

Reading more. That’s a good goal for this year, don’t you think? Reading has long been a personal passion. Since early elementary school I have loved ...

“Would you like to donate blood today?” “Sorry, I can’t” – is my recurring refrain as I hurry on by. Guilt washes over me as I avert my eyes from the ...

Today Franklin Living is releasing, featuring our special bridal section – along with a whole slate of other great content. If you’re a newspaper subs...

Sometimes, around this time of year, we all get a little-more-than-usually materialistic. I think even those of us who try to focus on how it’s more b...

Friday was the first time I’ve been to a football game at my high school since I graduated in 2008. Sometimes it seems like graduation was “just yeste...