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The Difference Between Good and Evil

Posted on August 28, 2016 by aamontgomery

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 →

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Much Ado About Laura and Tom Parkhill

Posted on April 28, 2016 by aamontgomery

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 →

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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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Harper Lee’s Handlers Kill a Mockingbird

Posted on July 14, 2015 by aamontgomery

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 →

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Losing Our Religion in the Wild Cow

Posted on June 28, 2015 by aamontgomery

In January of this year, my husband Kurt and I visited the fiercely happening metropolis of Nashville, Tennessee. As we waited for our food at a little vegetarian eaterie in East Nashville called the Wild Cow, REM’s classic “Losing My Religion”, … Continue reading →

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All the Blogposts I Didn’t Write

Posted on March 27, 2015 by aamontgomery

Yes, I have been spending too much eating, sleeping, dashing about, and in general thinking about, but not writing, blogposts. Guilty, guilty, guilty as charged. Here are just a few of the blogposts I didn’t write: Divine Celtic and Eastern … Continue reading →

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Knoxville’s Metro Pulse Weekly Silenced by Owner Scripps After 23 Years

Posted on October 16, 2014 by aamontgomery

I just heard the devastating news that Scripps has decided to pull the plug on Knoxville’s alternative weekly paper, the Metro Pulse, after the issue that hits the stands today. Since August 1991, the Metro Pulse has been this area’s … Continue reading →

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Knoxville, the Centeral of Our Universe

Posted on September 29, 2014 by aamontgomery

Yes, Knoxville is the centeral (south centeral, to be exact!) of our universe. And especially at the corner of Gay and Church Streets downtown. We Knoxvillians are gifted spellers as well . . .            

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This Southern American Woman Says Aye!

Posted on September 18, 2014 by aamontgomery

As I have been reading in the New York Times and USAToday, the registered voters of Scotland who are 16 years of age and over are voting today on whether they want their independence from the British. Sean Connery, Alan Cumming, and … Continue reading →

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