When Harry “HP” Ijams and Alice Yoe Ijams bought 20 wooded acres along the Tennessee River in South Knoxville in 1910, they were thinking in terms of a bird sanctuary …
Not exactly a ‘staycation’
I did not realize how much I enjoyed my mundane little world until I lost control of it. That’s what this dangerous and deadly virus has done to us. We …
Some thoughts from Tennessee’s patient zero
My Alexa requests are getting redundant. Several times a day, she hears the same request from me:
“Alexa, play ‘You’ll Get Through This’ by Martina McBride.”
I know you all understand. It’s …
You bet your life
I turned 70 on March 13, as astonished as anyone else in my circle that I’d reached this milestone of geezerhood. For several weeks I’d planned to travel with a …
Water, water everywhere, and no solutions yet
The 19th-century American essayist and novelist Charles Dudley Warner coined the phrase, “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Some Knox County residents let commissioners know on …
Breaking down the 2019 novel coronavirus
If you’ve watched or read the news lately, you’ve probably heard or seen stories about a novel (new) coronavirus that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. Since …