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- Right Place, Right Time April 29, 2018
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- Where Santa Hangs Out April 15, 2018
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- The Cult of Che March 11, 2018
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- Donde esta el bano? February 18, 2018
- Why I Went to Cuba February 11, 2018
- When Seniors Hit the Slopes February 4, 2018
- Happy Kazoo Day! January 28, 2018
- Rolling with the Flow January 21, 2018
- They’re Just Napping January 14, 2018
- Out With the Old January 7, 2018
- Don’t Smile! December 31, 2017
- What We Are Not Now December 24, 2017
- No Blue Ribbon December 17, 2017
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- What Time Is It? November 19, 2017
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- Day Tripping October 22, 2017
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- Picking Up Paw-paws September 17, 2017
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- A Different Perspective August 20, 2017
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- Did They Make It? July 30, 2017
- Battle Weary, Chapter Two July 23, 2017
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- Balancing Out the Bad November 29, 2015
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- Of Pansies and Pumpkins October 11, 2015
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- Drama Over “Drama” September 27, 2015
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- Chatting With Harper Lee July 26, 2015
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- No Way to Celebrate July 12, 2015
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- Giving Old Hickory the Boot May 31, 2015
- The Enigma of Andrew Jackson May 24, 2015
- Field Trip! May 17, 2015
- A New Perspective on Mother’s Day May 10, 2015
- Have Baby, Will Travel May 3, 2015
- “West Side Story” Not to be Missed April 26, 2015
- Cursive Triumphs, For Now April 19, 2015
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- Duck Dynasty Fan Club? Count Me Out. January 5, 2014
- Old-school, but not for long December 29, 2013
- Churning Them Out December 22, 2013
- Cross This Off Your List December 15, 2013
- Almost There December 8, 2013
- La Follette, Here I Come December 1, 2013
- Thankful November 24, 2013
- Where Were You? November 17, 2013
- Talking About War November 10, 2013
- What Are You Waiting For? November 3, 2013
- Keeping the Haints Away October 27, 2013
- Knock-down October 20, 2013
- What I Saw in the Ocean October 13, 2013
- Brown Sand, Brown Water October 6, 2013
- Looking for Alaska? Don’t Bother. September 29, 2013
- Challenged Book Deals With Timely Topic September 22, 2013
- Life on “The Rez” September 15, 2013
- Again Already? September 8, 2013
- Yum! Yum! September 1, 2013
- Yay for Yellowstone (and all the others) August 25, 2013
- What the Cops Said August 18, 2013
- A Grand Experience August 11, 2013
- Welcome, Little Prince! August 4, 2013
- Lost and found July 21, 2013
- Skunked! July 14, 2013
- Never Dull July 7, 2013
- Remembering Gettysburg June 30, 2013
- See the Lost Sea June 23, 2013
- How to Cook a Groundhog June 16, 2013
- Ever Eat a Groundhog? June 9, 2013
- Highway Robbery–Or Not June 2, 2013
- Not the Same Old, Same Old May 26, 2013
- Cookeville Couple Meet ‘Hero of Cleveland’ May 19, 2013
- More This-and-That May 12, 2013
- Welcome, Baby! (Chapter Two) May 5, 2013
- Scarred But Not Broken April 28, 2013
- On the Way to Memphis April 21, 2013
- Here’s to Hoops! April 14, 2013
- Good-bye, Hello April 7, 2013
- How to Boil an Egg March 31, 2013
- Where Have You Gone, Honey Boo Boo? March 24, 2013
- Here’s To Good Luck!!! March 17, 2013
- Of Clocks and Circadian Rhythms March 10, 2013
- Taking Down the Candles March 3, 2013
- The Problem with Anonymity February 24, 2013
- I Like Ike February 17, 2013
- Still Searching for a Miracle Cure February 10, 2013
- Packing Heat February 3, 2013
- Worth a Fifth Look January 27, 2013
- Pulitzer Ambitions January 20, 2013
- And While They Were Dancing January 13, 2013
- Of Widgets and Websites January 6, 2013
- The Best Christmas Presents December 30, 2012
- Looking for Sweetly Silly December 23, 2012
- What I DON’T Want for Christmas December 16, 2012
- Big Bird! December 9, 2012
- The Relaxing Holiday? December 2, 2012
- Thankful November 25, 2012
- Thanksgiving Stories Galore November 18, 2012
- Atonement November 11, 2012
- Of Fruit Flies and Davy Crockett November 4, 2012
- The Golden Hand October 28, 2012
- Waiting To Deadhead October 21, 2012
- Welcome, Baby! October 14, 2012
- Waiting For The Stork To Fly October 7, 2012
- Hooray For Banned Books September 30, 2012
- Archie And Veronica? Not Hardly September 23, 2012
- The Stork? No Way! September 16, 2012
- Blue Moon, Keep On Shining September 9, 2012
- Share The Road September 2, 2012
- See Crystal City. If You Dare. August 26, 2012
- Motels I Have Known August 19, 2012
- Westward Ho! August 12, 2012
- Fifty Shades Of Awful August 5, 2012
- Time Again For This-And-That July 29, 2012
- Like It, Hate It July 22, 2012
- Unplug! July 15, 2012
- Mayberry’s A Ghost Town July 8, 2012
- Magic Broom Trick July 1, 2012
- Going Home June 24, 2012
- Call Your Father June 17, 2012
- Cherishing the Memories June 10, 2012
- Summer Too Soon June 3, 2012
- More Literary Loss May 27, 2012
- Literary Losses May 20, 2012
- Need to Dry Your Hands? May 13, 2012
- East, West, Home is Best May 6, 2012
- Airplane Connections April 29, 2012
- Not to be Missed April 22, 2012
- Where Have You Gone, LC? April 15, 2012
- Back to Real Time April 8, 2012
- Better Than a Rock Star April 1, 2012
- Redbud Rapture March 25, 2012
- DST: Here We Go Again March 18, 2012
- RIP, Davy Jones March 11, 2012
- Plenty of Candles March 4, 2012
- A Different Kind of Ski Trip February 26, 2012
- No Chocolates or Perfume for Me February 19, 2012
- Why We Have a Snow Shovel February 12, 2012
- Got Half Your Corn and Half Your Hay? February 5, 2012
- John-Sam-Jeremiah Made His Way Into the Mountains January 29, 2012
- A Smart-Enough Phone January 22, 2012
- Its Days Were Numbered January 15, 2012
- Does Anybody Know What Day It Is? January 8, 2012
- Pink is for Polly January 1, 2012
- Still Unraptured May 29, 2011
- Fun at the Steeplechase May 22, 2011
- No Tears for Osama May 15, 2011
- Royal Wedding Souvenirs May 8, 2011
- Pursuing the Elusive Morel May 1, 2011
- Enough is Enough April 24, 2011
- Messin’ with Sasquatch April 17, 2011
- So Long, College Basketball April 10, 2011
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