“Whatever happens to human beings trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.” ― Sissela Bok Something is going on over on Bransford Avenue. Hard to figure out exactly what it is. But something is going on. The rumblings… Read More ›
“Whenever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.” ― Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Twenty-five years ago, the world changed. People older than me remember exactly where they were when JFK was… Read More ›
“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.” — Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies Forgive us if we are a little sad here in Tennessee. We lost a shining light this week when Dolly Parton departed… Read More ›
“The problem is that progress stopped making sense. More and more of us looked up one day and realized that the emperor had no clothes.” ― Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility… Read More ›
“But I don’t want to be Godly. I just want to be good.” ― Caradog Prichard, One Moonlit Night I’ve got a couple of pet peeves, which probably won’t surprise anybody who has been reading me for more than… Read More ›
“What is truth?” Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability… Read More ›
“She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. ‘You should go for younger women,’ she advised me. ‘They can’t always tell.’” —Tana French, In the Woods All good things must… Read More ›
“If you think the story has a sad ending, it’s because it’s not over yet.” ― Emily Henry, Beach Read Let’s step out of the schoolhouse for a moment and talk politics. You may know that Tennessee is in… Read More ›
“you are brought face to face with the great question about the soccer coach: Does he really matter? It turns out that coaches or managers (call them what you like) simply don’t make that much difference.” ― Simon Kuper, Soccernomics:… Read More ›
“Politics is like dice: the better the player, the worse the man.” ― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone The Fourth of July has always been my favorite holiday. Growing up, it marked the unofficial beginning of summer, when city folks would… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 