Knoxville Coronavirus

I’m so grateful to have such a beautiful spot on earth to spend these months as we work through the pandemic.  I love walking the city streets and I love being able to quickly be walking...

I hope you had a good long weekend and found ways to safely celebrate with family, friends and the people you love. Urban Girl, Urban Boy and I got out to Seven Islands State Birding Park...

State News: The state of Tennessee reported 1,396 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, as well as 27 deaths. 156,329 Tennesseans have gotten the illness and 1,781 have died as a result. 118,885 people have recovered, including...

State News: Yesterday, the state of Tennessee reported an additional 1,818 Tennesseans have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and 7 have died, bringing the pandemic total to 154,933 cases and 1,754 deaths. 116,864 people have recovered, including...

Welcome to another week of working our way hopefully forward through this mess and backward to something normal. I hope you made some time to enjoy the weekend. We did a little socially-distanced visiting, celebrated a...

I hope you were able to enjoy some of the amazingly cool weather we had this weekend. We got outside to grill some great burgers from Hen Hoc and to visit (socially distanced and outside) with...

Welcome to the weekend! We’ve made it through another week of updates and we’re ending the week with all numbers; international, national, state and local looking promising. Celebrate (but keep up the work)! I think we...

Our family’s travel fantasies are running amok. We’ve gone from  talking about the first place we’d want to go when we can travel again, to what we miss most about travel, to ranking favorite trips from...

I’ve recently realized that many social media conversations closely parallel those with my resident 5-year-old. It goes something like this: Me: Statement Him: Unrelated Response Me: Respond to His Unrelated Response Him: Squirrel! What has happened...

Welcome to a new week. Here’s hoping it is a good one for everyone. There are some good numbers being reported. On the upside, I am seeing more people wearing masks downtown, so hopefully that will...