Knoxville Coronavirus

Happy Friday. I hope your weekend is a good one. Our family picks up a chrome book and “manipulatives” for a kindergarten student today as we continue to ramp up for virtual education. Accomplishments this week:...

“Is it the weekend, yet?” Urban Boy, age five, asks me this each morning as I stumble out to make coffee in the kitchen, where he’s been patiently waiting for his coffee bean. We’re working on...

Good Wednesday! We’re halfway through another action-packed week. New benchmark information is provided below which should give us a glimpse of how we are doing locally. Recent numbers of hospitalizations seem to be better and deaths...

It’s a new day and a great day for beginnings. I was pleased to tell the story this morning of a new business opening in the downtown area. Lauren’s inspirational spirit during a difficult time was...

I hope you each had some happy time this weekend. We enjoyed some fresh Alabama gulf shrimp on the grill, thanks to Hen Hoc. This means so much to us. The Alabama gulf coast was home...

It’s Friday and I hope you all find a way to make your weekend a good one. We’re all stressed, worried, frustrated or some combination of each of those. It’s easy right now for that toxic...

Did you get outside last night? It felt just a touch like autumn and I don’t think I’m hallucinating. Just from personal impression, it seems we’ve had more delightful nights this summer than usual. I’m usually...

There is some strangeness in today’s numbers, so I’m going a little lighter on searching for links and take time for a closer look at some of the data. On the surface there would appear to...

Welcome to the weekend. There are some hopeful spots in today’s report. Maybe we can take a little hope into the weekend and look for diversions to take us from the news for a bit. Tonight...