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Category Archives: Knoxville
The Day the Music Lived
Buddy Holly’s quintessentially American music could have died with him in a plane crash in 1959. But the power of his idiosyncratic genius lives on. Our music is what defines us and our music is what saves us. Continue reading
The Best of Knoxville
The best of Knoxville: restaurants, garden center, shopping, ice cream.
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Posted in Food, Gluten free, Joy (Joie de General), Knoxville, Travel
Tagged Best Knoxville restaurants, Best of Knoxville, Best of Knoxville 2019, Best-kept secrets in Knoxville, Downtown Knoxville, kefi knoxville, Maple Hall, Mast General Store, Stanley's Greenhouse, The Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain, Wild Love Bakehouse, Yassin Terou, yassin's falafel house
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What A Woman Needs: It Starts with Damn . . .
[On November 30, 2014, I wrote the following blogpost about how I grew up in a sheltered, no-cussing household, but found that, as I got older, I needed a few choice words to illustrate my life. Four years later I find … Continue reading
Finding Darcus
Since at least 1992, I have been searching for my grandmother, Darcus Montgomery. She gave birth to my father in April 1935, and only four months later–in early August–she died. Naturally I assumed Daddy’s mother died from childbirth complications, and … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Childhood, Courage, Dementia, Family, Happiness, Home, Knoxville, Love, Uncategorized, Women, Wonder
Tagged ancestry, Darcus Montgomery, family, Knoxville, Latter Day Saints, Mormon, Tennessee
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Ruining Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
It all started with a discolored toenail and ended with losing most of my sense of taste. Yes, I went to my internal medicine doctor, who I have seen for years through my many episodes of gastro adventures. My first … Continue reading
We All Scream for Ice Cream
If all you were going by is the number of local places to share a beer or to have ice cream downtown, you would decide Knoxville, Tennessee, is obsessed with ice cream and beer. Maybe not at the same time, at … Continue reading
Under the Influence
A possible way forward in the middle of turmoil and strife: adventure, balance, curiosity, dreams, education, and being found together. Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Books, Childhood, Courage, Education, Family, Friends, Happiness, Ideas, Knoxville, Music, Op/Ed Thoughts, Tribute, Uncategorized, Wonder, Writing
Tagged adventure, balance, curiosity, dreams, Education, Fred Rogers, Great Atlantic Shoe Company, Hannah Gadsby, Jeanette Winterston, John Mellencamp, Lady Vols Basketball, Mr. Rogers, No Better Than This, Save Some Time to Dream, The UT Lady Vol basketball program, Won't You Be My Neighbor
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Backyard Excavation
After 15 years in a house we loved but that had grown too large for us, we decided to downsize and drag fewer possessions through life. We wanted to move to an area (1) we could afford, (2) in a … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Backyard Nature, Beauty, Family, Freedom, Happiness, Home, Ideas, Knoxville, Love, Music
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A Blue Moon Easter Eve
I haven’t written a blogpost since January because the last two months have been a blur of packing, downsizing, moving, and all the details that such a nightmarish task entails. At times we have wondered if we should have left … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Backyard Nature, Happiness, Home, Knoxville, Writing
Tagged a blue moon, Easter, garden art, goat, Knoxville, Old North Knox, Stanley's Greenhouse, West Knoxville
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The Paper
Until I watched Steven Spielberg’s latest movie “The Post” last evening, I had never thought of the throughline that newspapers have had in my life. When I was growing up, Daddy supplemented our income by working Saturday nights–through the night … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Courage, Knoxville, Op/Ed Thoughts, Screen, Women, Wonder, Work, Writing
Tagged Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison, Eisenhower, Knoxville, Knoxville Mercury, Metro Pulse, newspapers, President Franklin Delano Roosevele, Steven Spielberg, Tennessee, The Knoxville News Sentinel, The Post, The University of Tennesse
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