Category Archives: Knoxville

Breaking the Code

Posted on May 18, 2013 by aamontgomery

The other night I was watching a particularly ingenious, forgive the phrase, network television program, (yes, unlike some of my friends, I do watch television from time to time, i.e., most nights) that will remain nameless (Elementary) and I began gathering epiphanies in … Continue reading →

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The Threat of a Woman

Posted on April 18, 2013 by aamontgomery

“It is rare to see, in a little boy, the promise of a man, but in a little girl one can almost always see the threat of a woman.” ~ Alexandre Dumas (1802-70) When my photographer husband Kurt and I … Continue reading →

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Let’s Conjugate

Posted on March 23, 2013 by aamontgomery

Not really. Let’s not. Verbs are not really what should be changing their tenses in the spring, it should be the weather and tulips popping and migratory birds returning. Instead, it’s the usual cruel sort of spring here in East … Continue reading →

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I’m a Dancing Girl

Posted on February 15, 2013 by aamontgomery

I have always been drawn to people and communities who dance. My theory is that when a culture loses its dancing as a community, it loses its vitality and reason for existing, what the French call raison d’être. Conversely when … 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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Zero Dark Ice Storm

Posted on January 25, 2013 by aamontgomery

Yes, my hometown of Knoxville continues to have one enterprising weather system after another in my least favorite month of the year: January. We have had 75 degrees, the freaky and fast-moving snowstorm that proved that some Knoxvillians can indeed … Continue reading →

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