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Signs of the Times
Wherever I go, I have taken photos of signs and other public communication devices that have grabbed my attention for their brazen wackiness, weird points of view, or kernels of wisdom. Here are my favorites. Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Beauty, Courage, Creativity, Happiness, Ideas, Knoxville, Love, Screen, Style, Travel, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Audrey Hepburn, Berea College, British suffragettes, Kentucky, Knoxville, Knoxville Zoo, Lexington, London, Marilyn Monroe, pigeons, Seattle, St. Martin, Suffragettes, Tennessee, The Tube, UNICEF
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Smiling Like a Showgirl
A letter to my 14-month-old granddaughter during the coronavirus of 2020. Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Courage, Family, Ideas, Joy (Joie de General), Love, Uncategorized
Tagged Benefit Your Life, Bess Kalb, Bobby Bell, Cordelia Montgomery, Farmacy, hepatic carcinoma, Kentucky, Knopf, Knoxville, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, People magazine, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Tennessee, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, The New York Times, Union Avenue Books, Virginia, Walter Crane, West Town Mall
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Win By Losing
What is important in life? Not the big things but the little ones. 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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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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The Difference Between Good and Evil
How can you not help, if a child asks? Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing. In fact, such a person belongs in a mental institution. —Mieczysław Kasprzyk, a Polish farmer who risked his … Continue reading
Much Ado About Laura and Tom Parkhill
On Saturday, April 23, my photographer husband Kurt and I were ever-so-fortunate to capture love at its most rapturous when our friend Tom Parkhill married the love of his life, Laura Regis. Yes, gentle blog readers, you heard me right: … Continue reading
Posted in Blooming, Childhood, Creativity, Happiness, Joy (Joie de General), Knoxville, Stage, The Arts, Uncategorized, Wonder, Writing
Tagged Dale Dickey, Elvis, Laura Regis, Rossini Festival, Shakespeare, Shakespeare on the Square, Tennessee Stage Company, Tom Parkhill, Tupelo Honey Cafe
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My Hand, Always in Daddy’s Glove
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
Posted in Autobiographical, Blooming, Childhood, Freedom, Happiness, Home, Knoxville, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Alzheimer's disease, Anderson News, Daddy, Great Atlantic Shoe Company, Kern's Bakery, Knoxville, Lady Vols, Lady Vols Basketball, Pat Summitt, The Tennessee Theatre, The University of Tennessee, Tori Amos, White Lily Flour Co., Winter
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Harper Lee’s Handlers Kill a Mockingbird
Ever since I read that To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee’s lawyer Tonya Carter and publisher HarperCollins were planning to publish the first draft of a novel she wrote 57 or so years ago, I have been sick to death … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Op/Ed Thoughts, Screen, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Alice Lee, American Masters, Atticus Finch, Desegregation, Go Set a Watchman, Gregory Peck, Harper Lee, HarperCollins Publishers, Mary Badham, Michiko Kakutani, Nelle Lee, Pulitzer Prize, Racism, Scout, segregation, Tay Hohoff, The New York Times, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tonya Carter
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