Every other year Dan and I are Christmas orphans. With sons who live over 2,400 miles away, and who each have another set of parents to please, every other year …
Director of Clinton schools addresses letter grades
This past week, Tennessee public schools were given a letter grade in achievement which seems to define each school. As a former principal, I know how that definition either unfairly …
It’s beginning to look a lot like chaos!
Observations.
Pictured is an image of the miasmatic scene at the Heiskell Post Office. Every day, in the wee hours, pallets of Amazon packages are unloaded for the postal workers to …
Thanksgiving reminders
Thanksgiving reminds me of all those turkeys we drew in elementary school. It reminds me of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem, “The Concord Hymn,” a choral response reading that my 1963 …
Small things: A memory bank of love
I was once asked if I would participate in a medical research project that required blood work. The laboratory was difficult to find and when I finally arrived, the waiting …
SBA provides disaster loans for August severe storms
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has made low-interest, long-term disaster loans available in Knox, Anderson, Blount, Grainger, Jefferson, Loudon, Roane, Sevier, and Union counties in response to severe weather …
Keep calm and thank a nurse
In my lifetime I have met a plethora of nurses and here’s what I have learned. Nurses know how to calm you down but be prudent with their words. Nurses …
TAMIS receives grant to restore farming films
Knox County Public Library’s popular historic film collection reveals history in some unexpected ways. In 2019, the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound received two reels of 16mm film shot in …