Pryorities

Sights, sounds, and smells bring back memories of the early days in the Marble City I spent my childhood and early teen years growing up in North Knoxville. Life was simple, and pleasures came easy in those long ago days. My…
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Drawing a line in the sand on a year-long debate I’m no stranger to a face mask. I wore one practically every day from 1949 to 1953. The cowboys of Lincoln Park voted me the best “bad guy” of all time and made me the perpetual outlaw.…
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Why is the build-up to being seenmore work than the appointment? I don’t know about you, but I dislike going to the doctor. It’s not because I’m afraid of needles or even the dreaded prostate exam. My aversion is to the medical forms…
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Kids Say the Darnedest Thing Remember Art Linkletter? Now, that’s aname many have not heard in a long time. For the younger crowd, Linkletter was a host in the early days of television. He hada great talent for interviewing children and…
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On mornings I drive into town, when the weather is as clear and crisp as it was this morning, I see the mountains. I’ve never tired of seeing them for I am a child of the mountains. My family’s long history of living and dying in this…
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Sweet friendships refresh the soul. —Proverbs 27:9 Both men were slow exiting my car. For the first time, my two friends looked like old men. Chubby, the shorter of the two, shuffled to the door, while Wayne appeared weak and off…
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Attorneys share laughs amid lawsuits I rarely accept public speaking engagements. I used to speak to a lot of civic clubs, lawyer groups, and as an invited guest to address students at the UT College of Law, but I discontinued that…
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While bunkered down avoiding the COVID-19 virus and all human contact, I’ve had very little to do but think. Never have I been so isolated and my mind been so impotent. Then, I began to think of all the crazy stuff we have to put up with…
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My mother was a great cook. She had one foot solidly planted in southern country cookin’ and the other in an effort at a more sophisticated international cuisine, especially German and Italian. With seemingly little effort, she could work…
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Fond memories reverberate through stacks of wax. I miss records. I’m not talking about CD’s or downloading songs from iTunes. I mean phonograph records. You know, the round vinyl things with the hole in the middle. Okay, I know that…
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