Building Up Buttercup blog started as the diary of a middle-aged mom in construction school.

Now, it’s home to Buttercup Mysteries, a playful series of short home-and-garden riddles to solve with a combination of science, observation and commonsense.

And it’s the inspiration for a romantic comedy screenplay based on my unexpected career pivot from journalism to technical college.

About the Author

I’m Carrington Fox, a.k.a. Buttercup. After more than a decade as a journalist covering Nashville’s restaurant industry, I enrolled in construction school at Tennessee College of Applied Technology in Nashville to learn to make things with wood instead of words. 

I had an art history degree, an MBA, and three young sons. Most of my classmates were men half my age. It took a minute for us to figure each other out. Technical school was exhausting and humbling, as I stumbled and bumbled through learning to build a house. But new skills made me feel powerful in ways I had never known. And new perspective brought new confidence to my writing:

Building Up Buttercup: the script

In this romantic comedy of high heels and hard hats, a lonely fashion designer, desperate to revive her failed business, enrolls in technical college, where she finds the tools to rebuild both her creative career and her personal life.

Thank you for reading my blog and script. I hope they build you up, too.