Kitchen Table Wisdom

By Rosie Moore My title is the name of a book I’m reading now by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD who is one of the earliest pioneers in the mind/body health field, and was one of the first to develop a psychological approach to people with life-threatening illnesses and...

The Flu Season

  By Ralphine Major Wash your hands!  Despite today’s many advancements, the instructions that mothers have given children for years is still the best advice modern medicine offers to guard against flu. This year’s flu season has been brutal, snuffing out the...

Here we go again

  By Joe Rector Another day brought another massacre of young people. Douglas High School suffered from the maniacal acts of a former student. In the end, seventeen persons are dead and as many have been wounded. The weapon of choice in the crime was an AR-15...

Duty to Render Aid

By Jedidiah McKeehan In the final episode of Seinfeld, the four main characters are sent to jail for a year for failing to render aid to someone getting mugged (if you have not seen it yet, I am not sorry, it aired 20 years ago). There is a similar statute in...

What is the Vols’ ceiling?

By Alex Norman In March, Tennessee’s men’s basketball team will play in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2014.  They also have a decent chance of winning the SEC tournament, something they haven’t done since 1979. Tennessee has swept their season series...

Region semifinal at Alcoa could be a dandy

By Steve Williams My favorite night at high school basketball tournament time has for years been the region semifinals. This is the game, I believe, when the pressure is the thickest. A win takes a little of the pressure off as it puts a team in the region finals and...