Knoxville Coronavirus

Welcome to the weekend and, for those of us with school kids about, spring break. I’m sure a number of people will travel for spring break, just as they’ve always done. Many of us will not....

A year ago, today I made my first mention of COVID-19 on this blog. I wrote about the city council meeting in which Dr. Buchanan (it was also the first time I’d ever mentioned her) spoke...

Well, Urban Boy turns six today. We celebrated with our little pod on Friday night, got outdoor, distanced presents from his dad’s mom on Sunday and will get presents in a parking garage from his parents...

Vaccines are proliferating as is the sunshine. The daylight hours are growing longer, and we’ll get more of it in our waking hours starting this weekend. Case counts and deaths are at their lowest level in...

Welcome to another week. It promises to be a beautiful week in east Tennessee. Let’s hope the news is as pleasant. Unfortunately, there are signs at the international level that we may be losing our downward...

Happy weekend, everyone. I hope you do something special or fun in the sunshine. We should be seeing shoots of green, soon. Last spring was beautiful and this one is filled with far more hopefulness. I...

When will the pandemic end? We aren’t likely to wake up one morning and realized it ended while we slept, though that would be nice. Is there a personal marker you have in mind? Lists of...

Welcome to a beautiful Wednesday. What a difference a year can make! We’ve made it through the longest and most difficult part of the epidemic. Now we need to see it successfully through to the end....

I am not sure who saw what shadow and what it meant, but I’m feeling spring. I think maybe our winter, both seasonal and metaphoric is behind us. Last spring was beautiful in east Tennessee, but...

I hope you had a great weekend. We got a little surprise sunshine that prompted some bonus balcony time. I need the fresh air because apparently, I have wrinkles. I had never noticed, but Urban Boy...