Like many of my generation, I loved Fleetwood Mac. I had always wanted to see them perform live and, finally, had the chance just a couple years ago. So, my wife, Diana, and I gathered with about 23,000 of our closest friends at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville for the Farewell Tour. Stevie Nicks came to …
Soddy-Daisy – United for Progress It was in 1969 that a commission worked to bring together the tiny town of Soddy with the neighboring tiny town of Daisy, each anchoring the 9 mile stretch of Highway 27 along the base of Montlake, Mowbray and Flat Top mountains. I wasn’t there, but I’m sure the goal …
Angels walking in the starlightPeople gather at the roadside My real life started on I-95, back in 1981, in the driver’s seat of a brown Ford Pinto. I have told the story elsewhere, so I will not delve into all the details, but life had delivered me to a place of deep introspection, a certain …
Jim was the lead machinist in a large shop of accomplished machinists. He was also a nice guy, grandfatherly, easy to talk to. He was the ‘go-to’ guy when a solution was needed. After 40 years in the business he knew what he was doing, without fancy computers or machines, but with his blue denim …
So, it was 1990 and I found myself living in Summerville, SC with my wife Diana and four kids. I was working for a ministry, which means ministry pay (and not TV ministry pay!) and times were tough, money-wise. Diana’s mom, Libby, called from Tennessee with a problem. It seems that her grandson Joe had …
One Father’s Day my daughter Jennifer took me to the International Towing and Recovery Museum, located here in Chattanooga. It is no accident that this underappreciated museum resides locally – Chattanooga is where the towing industry got its start, and Miller Industries still builds tow trucks nearby. It was a fascinating and fun trip, because …
I woke up this morning to read a Facebook post from a friend that brought me great sorrow, as a notice of death typically will. Not a relative, or even a close friend. But a saint had passed, and it saddened me. The rest of the story first… When mom came to live with us …
I am reading a book, by K.J. Ramsey, about her struggle with a decade of chronic illness and pain. She started her journey with the intention of overcoming her trials, with conquering her problems, with emerging victorious over her pain. Reality turned out a little different for her, and hence the name of the book, …
I came of age in a place called Dale City, Virginia. It was not actually a city, yet, but just another massive subdivision of Washington, D.C. The developer, C. D. Hylton, named it after the hills and dales of the once-rural farmland upon which it was built. Each sub-subdivision was a ‘dale’, the first being …
It continues to get curiouser and curiouser out there. Lines that were clear have been redrawn as the current crisis overwhelms society’s ability to deal with it. What once was right is now left and vice versa. I find myself with strange bedfellows, as there is a new and odd bipartisanship around two distinct outlooks …
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