This week’s Fun Monday is hosted by Jo . Here is her assignment:
March 2nd is my Mom’s birthday and was her mother’s birthday as well. For this week’s Fun Monday, tell me something fun about your mother and/or her mother....
One of the awesome things about having a baby is getting people to cook for you. When my mom was here she and Daddy stocked our fridge and freezer, making us some freezer meals and leaving us with ingredients to...
I am a very understanding person, I try to look at situations from all the involved angles and remove myself from a situation as much as possible before reacting. I have a tendency to make excuses for someone to help...
I ran across this list today, and I just had to share it with you. Before some of you get up in arms, let me explain my stance on government spending and “special projects.” I realize that people expect their...
Back in May of 2007, Herman Wang of the Chattanooga Times Free Press wanted to ask me some questions via email. Only a tiny fraction of that ended up in the story. I'm printing our convo here for the first...
I kinda missed my former theme — even with all its faults — so I’m in the process of shifting things over to an approximation of the old site. Back when I made the switch to the new server, I...
I cannot believe that Henry is 13 months today, time is flying. Soon I will no longer have a baby but a toddler I guess you could call him a toddler now. The theme for NaBloPoMo this month is...
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Join the Benwood Foundation, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, and CreateHere for a lecture by John Merrow, education correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Merrow will speak at 7 p.m. this Tuesday,...
Along with the early daffodils and forsythia, Lenten Rose (Helleborus x hybridus) has been showing its face in the garden for the last several weeks - an early announcement of Lent, of which today is the first Sunday. It blooms...
I just learned that he has passed on at 90 years old.
It’s a very pleasant childhood memory, riding around with Dad, listening to “The Rest of the Story” on the radio. I’ll always remember Paul Harvey fondly.
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Writing again...
A few months ago I signed up for the Black Mountain Marathon in Black Mountain, NC because I had not yet done a trail marathon. Luck had it that I not only signed up for one of the most...
Originally posted on Thursday April 24, 2008 on vthoward.blogspot.com
The annual Four Bridges Art Festival came to Chattanooga’s First Tennessee Pavilion last weekend. This year’s exhibition, like last year’s, displayed a satisfying range of styles and approaches. I saw artists presenting...
In the the late nineteenth century Meiji period, a small coterie of Japanese painters decided their contemporaries had endured enough Western influence. Armed with sumi (a Chinese ink made from soot, fishbone, and animal hide), and a complex pigment derived...
The twentieth-century poet and critic Randall Jarrell foresaw, at the edge of his dreams, a startling but hopeful future for poetry:
Sometimes when I can’t go to sleep at night I see the family of the future. Dressed in three-tone shorts-and-shirt...
I savor the edgy competition of a good Ebay bid-war. I still relish the thought of my narrow victory last year over a guy from Vancouver contending for an out-of-print Neil Young vinyl from 1973. Yet I wonder if that...
Finally, a TN legislator, Representative Karen Camper, (D-Memphis) is protecting life from the very beginning before it even meets its egg. The vicious killing of innocent unborn little sperm. Hope Focus on the Family will make this...
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