by design | Dec 31, 2025 | The Daily Focus
UT ARBORETUM THURSDAY, JANUARY 1st, 9 AM How about a nice refreshing hike on New Year’s Day to start 2026 out on the right foot? With all the football, food and festivities, do you feel like there’s something missing after the holidays? Perhaps it’s exercise!...
by design | Dec 30, 2025 | The Daily Focus
Over $42 Million Available to Communities to Support Multimodal Transportation Options ~ from TDOT Nashville, Tenn. – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, along with Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) Commissioner Will Reid, P.E., announced the award of over...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10 I have been a stargazer all my adult life. Years ago, instead of a Red Ryder BB gun like Ralphie’s in the movie “A Christmas Story,” I asked Santa...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor If you are like me, you are not particularly fond of the days between Christmas and New Year’s. The decorations remain, the songs still echo faintly, but the urgency, excitement, and expectation seem to have...
by design | Dec 29, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Every morning, I rise from bed when my eyes open. If I’ve used an alarm clock, the snooze button is never touched. I walk through the house and hit the button to start the coffee pot brewing and continue to my bathroom at the far end of the house. I...
