Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898
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The Art of Visual Comfort: Combating Artistic Burnout through Nature The vast greenery and historic buildings initially captured my attention in middle Tennessee. Many people have their ideas of paradise; some mention the beaches of Florida or the perfect weather of California. However, with the population at an all-time high, open space is my paradise. Hearing the wind through the trees and observing nature - it speaks in signs. To understand its language, we must first notice what’s around us. This becomes challenging in city life where n...
“I accept full responsibility.”’ In your lifetime you’ve doubtless heard umpteen public figures (elected officials, bureaucrats, corporate executives, celebrities) promise, “I accept full responsibility” after some manifestation of corruption, incompetence or social injustice comes to light. (And if you’ve ever witnessed your CAT insinuate, “I accept full responsibility,” you need to take full responsibility for the potency of the weed you’re smoking.) The first dozen times you heard this, you...
Dear Santa, This Christmas, I would like monster trucks, hot wheels, remote control trucks, a new bike, tractor, and a lot of Lego sets. Thank you Santa! Love, Logan Morris * * * Dear Santa, I want a guitar and the plastic kitchen food, pots and pans set; a short mermaid stuffed animal and jewelry set; cute clothes/mermaid set; Playdoh with mermaid cutters; a mermaid purse and mermaid stickers; cough drops to help my throat; Little Mermaid high heels but not too high; mermaid arm pillow and mermaid picture with seashells around it. Love,...
Dear Santa, I want a remote control plane. My Brother wants one too and a car. James * * * Dear Santa, I want my pet to have a friend and I want a JoJo Siwa Doll. Madilynne * * * Dear Santa, I want a beast, I want a furbee, I want a remote control plane, I want a mounted big foot. Gage * * * Dear Santa, My name is Lilliana Arledge. I am 5 years old. I have been good this year. Please bring me a bracelet set that I can make bracelets with. Please bring my mom and dad 2 necklaces and 2 bracelets. For my other dad and mom, please bring the same...
Dear Santa, My name is Liam Staggs. I am 5 years old. I have been good this year. Please bring me a tablet and a laptop and a RC car. Please bring my family a drone. Thank you Santa. Love, Liam * * * Dear Santa, My name is Tytus Staggs. I am 6 years old. I have been good this year. Please bring me a Tobot and a book. I do need more crayons too. Oh and new ornaments for my Christmas tree. Oh and a lunchbox. Oh and a sign for my markers. Please bring my mommy some cookies and my dad a new cup. Please bring my sister a Squishmallow, a heart one....
Dear Santa, My name is Easton. I want a Miko Robot, a giant slinky, and a Transformer. Preferably Bumblebee. I also would like an outdoor playset. I can’t wait for Christmas and I can’t wait for you. Santa! I hope you have a fun and safe trip around the world. Easton Peery * * * Dear Santa, I would like a real four-wheeler, an indoor basketball hoop. I would like for you to bring Baylor a baseball with Tennessee on it and bring Brynlee a Christmas tree. Please bring Bay a baseball with Alabama on it. I have tried to be good this year. Max Hal...
Dear Santa, I want a toy robot, a spy robot, green goblin, rhino, toy trucks, and a robot that stomps really loudly. I am gonna leave you some chocolate cookies and milk to drinks. Ryan * * * Dear Santa, I want a Gabby dollhouse, a RC car that goes in the pool, a motorcycle that drives in the backyard, a basketball post, and a RC car that goes in the house. I will leave you some cookies and milk at the table. Thanks. Joseph * * * Dear Santa, I want a black car, a flash toy, a Spiderman dinosaur, a green dinosaur, an toy tractor, a playdough...
Dear Santa, I want a new phone. Please bring me more racetracks. I want in my stocking some cards, candy and a coffee. Thank you Santa! Eli Owens * * * Dear Santa, My name is Carly. I would like a slime maker toy, a tent, make-up, ghost toy, spin chair, and a slide. Carly *** Dear Santa, I want a bike, a kitchen set, a hat and 10 pair of cute pink shoes, a robot, dog or cat, make-up, purse, jewelry (no fake earrings please causes infections) Xbox and games, tie die shirts, five LOL dollhouse, LOL dolls, a new pack of lipstick. Aaliyah Tripp ***...
Dear Santa, Hi! My name is Will Chapin and I am seven years old. I’ve been a very good boy this year. Please bring me a new bike, Iphone 14, roller skates, a kite and a new TV. I will leave you milk and cookies and the reindeer some treats. Will Holt Chapin *** Dear Santa, I would like LOL Surprise dollhouse, Santa plushy, Barber dreamhouse, Barbie with pajamas (reindeer), Christmas fake nails, reindeer squishmellow, little live pet puppy, and Christmas high heels. Zaylee *** Dear Santa, I want a switch game and a robot and a dinosaur. If y...
Dear Santa, My name is Jake Schroder. I am 4 years old. I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were play with Memphis and loved mommy. My Christmas wish list is mighty pups, rider car, a surprise, and a robo car. Love, Jake * * * Dear Santa, My name is Avery Tackett. I am 5 years old. I have been very good this year. Some of the nice things I did were cleaning my room and I was nice to my mom and dad. My Christmas wish list is popcorn machine, cotton candy machine, a lot of toys for me and a lot of toys for Lolli,...
Dear Santa, I hope Billibob comes soon. I have been good this year, I think. For Christmas, I want a guitar, an iPad, and if you have those little toy reindeer, I would like one please, I will name it Peanut or Grace. I have a question for you, do you look like the Santa in the Christmas Chronicles, and do you say “Ho, Ho, Ho”? I love that movie. I hope you have a good Christmas. Love, KayLeeanna James * * * Dear Santa, I would like a dirt bike, X-Box and an airsoft gun. Love, Axel Vaughan * * * Dear Santa, I was good this year. I want a lap...
So, having earned an associate’s degree from our local community college, my son Gideon is now pursuing a bachelor’s degree in mechatronic engineering from my old alma mater. This only child who had never really spent the night away from home is cautiously adapting to dormitory life. (“Dormitory”: from the Latin for “Who needs Latin? We have panties to raid and fire extinguishers to discharge!”) So far, he and his roommate are coexisting amicably; but I have seen enough “roommate from hell” st...
I didn’t watch all of them from the very beginning, but several significant TV shows debuted in the fall of 1972. “The Bob Newhart Show” starred Bob Newhart (who turned 93 on September 5) as psychologist Bob Hartley. Bob’s trademark stammer didn’t seem all that noticeable to me. I was just starting junior high school and being at a loss for words was par for the course around the ninth-grade girls. I imagined lying face-down on Bob’s couch to hide the zits. If Bob had added a P.E. climbing ro...
When does a 500th anniversary require an asterisk? If you’re a fan of trivia and myth-busting, you’ve doubtless heard umpteen repetitions of “George Washington didn’t really have wooden teeth,” “Napoleon wasn’t short,” “Lemmings don’t commit mass suicide” and “Ferdinand Magellan didn’t sail all the way around the world.” Sure enough, Magellan was killed two years into the three-year voyage to circumnavigate the globe. (That probably saved him from an ugly scene at home. Before he set sail, h...
Believe it or not, August 31 is the 25th anniversary of the traffic accident that robbed the world of the effervescent Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana was a distant, distant cousin (my great-great grandfather Tyree married Mary Ann Spencer a century before I was born); but even without that connection, I feel compelled to dedicate this week’s column to drawing a few lessons from her too-brief life. The philosophy “Seemed like a good idea at the time” sums up so much of her public career. In re...
“Anxious parents are no longer allowing their kids to go to slumber parties,” announced a blurb in the August 16 “New York Post.” Slumber parties are not usually one of the top subjects on my mind in the morning (“Got my keys, got my snack, got my wallet, got a great ‘is your refrigerator running?’ joke to share…”), so I was surprised to learn that 12.3 million parents participate in the #NoSleepovers movement online. (Boy, I’m old. I remember when Arte Johnson popularized “Blow in my ear and...
“Memories/Light the corners of my mind…” – as sung by Barbra Streisand. While grocery shopping with my mother in the 1970s, I enjoyed peeking at the “Golden Age” Sunday comics in “Good Old Days” magazine and developing an appreciation of the cartoon antics my father remembered from his boyhood. In the early 1980s, as part of a school magazine fundraiser, my (then-future) wife wheedled her grandfather into purchasing a much-enjoyed subscription to “Reminisce.” I am overjoyed that these two maga...
According to the Washington Examiner, 2022 has handed New York City an alarming spike in citizen complaints about outdoor odors (“I hope you appreciate me doing my civic duty. It’s not easy to use a cellphone to make a 311 call and publicly urinate at the same time. Oops…sorry, graffiti.”) Mayor Eric Adams has promised a new garbage bin program, brand-new street sweepers and additional restrooms; but I wonder how committed he truly is. Adams is on the record opining that the main thing HE smells...
Trust me when I declare that I am not competing for sympathy against folks suffering from cancer, blocked arteries, diabetes or other serious ailments. I do nonetheless think that my body is out to get me. And not just with the chronic aches, pains and wrinkles that accompany normal aging. No, my body perpetrates fiendishly clever assaults on my comfort and dignity. (Misery loves company, so you may be yelling, “Too much information!” as this essay assaults your own comfort and dignity.) I am...
Believe it or not, my wife and I haven’t attended a concert in nearly 25 years. (Elton John’s January 1998 appearance at Nashville Arena was our last outing.) I realize such an admission strikes a discordant note with most “normal” people. “Don’t you want to be able to say that you saw (fill in the blank) in person?” Get serious. Most of the applause at concerts is lavished upon songs celebrating substance abuse, promiscuity, adultery or anti-establishment violence. If you can approve the o...
The front page of the July 8, 1947 “Roswell (New Mexico) Daily Record” seized the American imagination with the headline “RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) Captures Flying Saucer.” That announcement added fuel to the saucer craze of summer 1947 (“Keep your raccoon coats, grandpa – we’ve got Martians!”); but to the disappointment of believers in extraterrestrial visitors, the military issued a retraction the very next day, asserting that the debris found by rancher W.W. “Mac” Brazel was merely a...
You’ve probably seen the screaming headlines about a Gallup survey revealing that Americans’ belief in God has hit an all-time low. I’m not here to quibble with the atheists, agnostics and alternate-spirituality practitioners who answered the survey. No, I’m just flummoxed by subsets of the supposedly pro-God respondents. You see, the survey also branched into questions about prayer. Of the 81% of Americans who conceded still believing in God, 28 percent said He hears prayers but cannot interve...
“Did you know that your rear passenger tire is a little underinflated?” I harbor a grudging appreciation for a potentially life-saving hint like that. I mean, it makes me feel like an IDIOT that I can stare at the tire, repeatedly kick it and still need a gauge to verify what someone standing 150 yards away in a hailstorm recognized immediately; but I do swallow my pride and express gratitude. Not so much with “Hey, you got your ears lowered” and other impertinent observations. I suffere...
Wow! Will this really be my 19th Father’s Day as a father? My biggest regret is that I’ve had to learn so much the hard way. To make life easier for other fathers and prospective fathers, I’m sharing reader-submitted pearls of wisdom: Resign yourself to the fact that the mother of your progeny will probably never admit that you deserved an epidural for the paper cut you suffered from the Lamaze brochure. Remember that whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you available to encounter the NEXT co...
Did you get your copy of “Queen Elizabeth II: Reign in Pictures” in time for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee ceremonies? As a bookazine fanatic, I certainly did. Beg pardon? What’s a bookazine, you ask? (I promise I am merely making educated guesses about your inquiries. I do not have the ability to read your mind. And neither does that new co-worker you’ve been undressing with your eyes. But I digress.) Bookazines combine the permanence of a book with the vivid images, pithy text and exciting la...
