Category Archives: Freedom

My Hand, Always in Daddy’s Glove

Posted on September 30, 2015 by aamontgomery

In his black-and-gray herringbone coat with his bitten-short fingernails, Daddy would come through the door after work. That is my first hazy memory from childhood. I am not sure why I remember Daddy’s coat and his nails as the same … Continue reading →

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Thunder Still Rolling in the Mountains

Posted on May 10, 2015 by aamontgomery

Perhaps because they lived so close to the natural world and recognized kindred spirits and sacredness in everything around them, the words of wise Native Americans echo through the ages with the same truth they carried when they were first said. … Continue reading →

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Birds a la Hitchcock, Ballanchine, and Boogaloo

Posted on February 20, 2015 by aamontgomery

On Wednesday I woke up and looked out our front door to find snow, ice, and swarms of birds (and I mean hundreds, not just a tweeting few) raucously flip-flapping as if they were reenacting a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s … Continue reading →

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I’d rather die standing than live on my knees . . .

Posted on January 8, 2015 by aamontgomery

“I am not afraid of retaliation. I have no kids, no wife, no car, no credit. It perhaps sounds pompous, but I prefer to die standing to living on my knees.” ~ Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier At the Paris office of Charlie … Continue reading →

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Best of Knoxville’s Independence Day Street Style

Posted on July 5, 2014 by aamontgomery

  Seeing, being seen, walking the dog, eating on Market Square while the kids screw up their courage to run through the water play fountain, serendipitous art, it’s all happening in downtown Knoxville. This Fourth of July holiday my photographer … Continue reading →

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Support Independent Thinking

Posted on August 23, 2013 by aamontgomery

Union Avenue Books in Downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, goes one step further than asking us to support independent bookstores. In addition to offering the best array of books I have ever seen in one small place, Union Avenue suggests we support … Continue reading →

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Up to Good

Posted on April 28, 2013 by aamontgomery

When I was growing up, Mama used to say so-and-so was up to no good. Illustrating that description from my childhood was an infamous family whose last name has been lost in the haze of my faulty memory. They were … Continue reading →

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Our Free-range Pet Spider

Posted on January 30, 2013 by aamontgomery

You can say it is a stretch to have a pet spider who comes and goes has he (or she) pleases. But no matter how strange it sounds, we apparently have drawn into our home a tiny, webless, very comfortable … Continue reading →

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