Tennessee state Senator Andy Berke kicked off his campaign for reelection to the 10th District seat Wednesday evening at Chattanooga's Bessie Smith Hall. Guests filled the venue to near capacity and ate catered barbecue while they listened to a...
Yesterday Fuller and I were chauffeured to Auburn by my MIL. We arrived at my Grandma’s house and settled in for the rest of the week.
As someone who is getting comfortable in her role as an Auburn fan, I really...
http://media.timesfreepress.com/special-sections/InTheCity/inthecitycurr092008.swf?initial_page=19
a good read, but if i had a dollar for every mistake in here, i'd be able to buy that new bike i want. contrary to what is stated, race hallucinations are NOT the a-ha moments that i love in...
Collier wrote a story about the trend of ultralight backpacking in a recent issue of Backpacker Magazine. Ultralight backpacking involves, as the name suggests, traveling through the wilderness while carrying very little weight. This allows you to go farther, to...
Sunset on 9/3/08
The sunset was pretty tonight and it’s really nice out, but with the number of clouds it doesn’t seem that I’d be able to do any astrophotography this evening....
Originally I was not going to watch any of the Republican Convention. But then I had a friend text me last night at about 10:15 PM with a message that read, “now I know what the fiddling sounded like while Rome was burning.”...
State Senator Andy Berke is set to kick off his re-election campaign with a rally at the Bessie Smith Hall in downtown Chattanooga this evening. Senator Berke agreed to an interview with Chattarati, and our editors asked him about everything...
For all of us who are seniors---for all of you who know seniors---and for all of you who will be seniors. It pays to be able to laugh about it when you are! Speaking of Senior Moments: ...
Just over 45 years ago, Chattanooga stood as part of a monumental moment in history. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. mentioned Lookout Mountain in his “I Have a Dream” speech. At the...
On Labor Day we decided to take a little day trip. I haven't left town all summer and lately I've been feeling the itch for something new; a change of scenery. Thinking of the days before bambinos, of spontaneous road...
We celebrated my grandmother's 80th birthday with family in Nashville. It was not only an enjoyable weekend with relatives, but an opportunity to see Sydney ride with Ann and understand a little better what she does when she stays...
E-mail is an interesting beast. Technically, it’s a web 1.0 function, but fits within the 2.0 strategy. It’s been around for a while, so we know more about what works than any other social medium. There’s an enormous amount of...
Re-posting with permission from The Bisch
Whatever your politics, however you lean and however you feel about the current administration, this report is interesting. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the below...
I hate moving.
When I do it again my last name better be changing.
I love my new house though. It’s gonna take awhile to get everything exactly the way I want it, but in the end it will be worth it.
It’s...
One thing we are learning about Nicholas is that he does not like to eat breakfast. This morning Aunt Heather had fixed French toast, and we were all working as hard as we could at encouraging him to eat....
Grandpa and Grandma were in town for a visit.Here are the boys in front of the last steam engine to be built in the U.S. We picnicked on Signal Mountain and Grandpa helped me prepare the garden for fall planting.Esther...
Nonni and Poppi came to town, and we walked around UN headquarters for a while. It's a really cool old building (or rather buildings), and it probably won't be around much longer in its current form: there's a grand plan...
Thanks to those of you who have tried to access Inspired Bliss (even though or official launch is about two weeks away) or Blissfully Domestic's main page. The site is still under construction or it might be a case of...
Michelle and I just had our anniversary, and of course we got eachother some simple gifts. so Michelle went to my amazon wish list and found a couple things for me. and I got a couple things from amazon for...
I felt this part of Fred Thompson's speech was his strongest point:We need a President who understands that you don't make citizens prosperous by making Washington richer, and you don't lift an economic downturn by imposing one of the largest...
[Pat Branham was a delegate for Hillary Clinton to the Democratic Convention in Denver. Her blog about the convention appeared on the Chattanooga Times Free Press website. Pat is Director of a Clinical/Vocational Staff, a realtor, an RN and holds...
Could it get any worse Coach Bowden? The laughing stock of the nation? Some people feel like this cover should be plastered on the U-haul truck that should be parked in front of Coach Bowden's house. Pathetic. Don't you miss...
Umbra Essence Candles and Gifts is thrilled to be a part of the annual Gallery Hop put on by the Association For Visual Arts and the Chattanooga Downtown Partnership. http://www.avarts.orgThe event takes place on Saturday, September 13 from 2pm until...
This is the headline that many Clemson University football fans would love to see after Clemson's manhandling by Alabama. For many, it is hopeful that Clemson will loose all of the remaining games so that Bowden would be forced to...
If you weren’t at the AVO Lounge Saturday night for ChattUp, here are a few things you missed out on…
Meeting upwards of 25 cool Twitter users from the Chattanooga area
A sneak peek of Find Me in Town
Some guy relieving...
Courtesy of Allison, your meme of the day is: Food.This is a list of 100 foods that every omnivore should eat sometime in their life. The idea is to bold the ones you've eaten.Happily, I like to eat (though I...
Otto is recuperating, sitting quietly for his eyedrops before tearing around the house in his Elizabethan collar, making it very clear he does not believe that accessorizing is something doglets should be involved in. But he has so far been...
Though we've been vacationing at Kiawah Island for 16 years, this was a year marked by firsts.
The first "first" was bicycling to the end of the earth Island past the "crescent" to discover where all the sand dollars live. That...
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