This may not be the coldest West Tennessee winter on record (it’s not—yet), but we’ve just had two straight weeks of unbroken extreme cold temperatures, a 15-inch snowstorm followed by two …

I didn’t play in the snow last week. We adults are most often taken over by events when a “Snowmageddon” hits the South. There’s bread and milk to drain from the Walmart, Kroger, and …

If you’ve read my column over the years you know I love lists – lists of beautiful places, lists of great Americans (last week), lists of great Tennesseans (three weeks ago), and lists of …

In an era where a college degree is sold as the golden ticket to success, it's worth pausing to ask: Are we getting what we pay for? Skyrocketing tuition, mountains of student debt, and graduates …

As I write this Tuesday morning, much of Tennessee has been covered by a beautiful—if inconvenient—blanket of snow and ice for the past three days. Some areas were hit harder than others, with …

In case you are snowed in this week and unable to get to school, here’s a makeup English lesson you didn’t ask for. I was sitting in the living room watching it snow and listening to an oldie’s …

Another Minnesotan citizen has been shot and killed by federal officers. He was an ICU nurse. He was putting himself between Border Patrol agents and a woman they had pushed to the ground. He was …

I was reading an article the other day about J.D. Vance, our bearded vice president, and the author mentioned that President Trump, who prefers clean-shaven faces, almost passed over him as a running …

It was the summer of 1976 and I was eleven years old. In the Arkansas heat we played at the elementary playground around the corner from our house. I was in sixth grade that year and junior high was …

De-banking is defined by AI as the practice of terminating a customer’s account by a bank or other financial institution when the bank decides it doesn’t like the business you are in, or …

 I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about a new company that claims that through something called “facial personality analytics” its AI computer system can almost instantly scan a face …

Factual debates today often seem to line up along political lines. That fact alone should be scary to all of us, even beyond the significance of a given topic or issue. Our ability to agree or …

Last Tuesday was January 6 th , 2026. The sixth anniversary of Insurrection Day. The day Trumplicans marched on the United States Capitol building and broke into it as Congress, and Vice President …

Last Tuesday was January 6 th , 2026. The sixth anniversary of Insurrection Day. The day Trumplicans marched on the United States Capitol building and broke into it as Congress, and Vice President …

I’ve been giving a lot of thought about the greatest Tennesseans in the history of our State. Tennessee is the sixteenth state in the union admitted in 1796, the last state to be admitted in the …

 One of the goofiest trends of the last few years, to me at least, is that of setting aside various days of the year as “national this or that day.” January, for example, has, in addition to …

I was up at two in the morning doing things that Old Men in their sixties do. The whole house was quiet. I sat in Laura Gail’s bathroom (yes, she owns it) and tried not to fall asleep. The …

Happy New Year! I hope the new year will bring you closer to your goals and aspirations, and especially closer to your loved-ones and friends. Let’s look at some important trends that are likely to …

I found myself watching some very old 8mm home videos recently and got to watch myself opening one of my favorite Christmas gifts of all time. It was around 1973 or 74 and I was about eight years …

Numerology tells us that next year, 2026 will be “Universal Year #1,” meaning it will start a new-nine year cycle – whatever that means. Frankly, I’m poking fun at an idea that seems to be a …