After spending three days in Istanbul, I headed to Athens, Greece. This is what I saw when I got there... It might surprise you to know...

The campus center at the University of Tennessee. In talking with a friend the other day, I realized I've never described the courses I...

View of the Tennessee River from the visitor's center off Neyland Drive. It's been a busy week—too busy for my usual post on my trip. I...

In this post, I stray from my usual writing theme, though you had better believe I edited this for hours before posting! Reflection of...

At the end of 2022, I spent one month traveling in Romania, Turkey, and Greece. I spent a little over two weeks in Brasov, Romania,...

Forest of my childhood braved, blazed, razed, consumed by the night. Stands solemn now in winter. Fights fire with ice. My dad and I...

I've lived through enough New Year's to know that nothing magical happens at midnight on December 31st. As a kid, I remember standing in...

It's always strange, being home. Home where I was a child, where I became a not-child, where I am not a child anymore. I sat on this tree...

I am behind on posting, but that's no surprise. I may give up entirely until after my trip. Travel takes it out of you, and it's hard to...

I planned to write about writing today, but my heart just wasn't in it. I lost one a great post last Saturday, folks. It's going to be...

Well, folks. I'm frustrated. I spent the last three hours fine-tuning a post about target audience, but stupidly, I hadn't saved it...

I missed my post last Saturday; it was a rough day. I'm working on this Saturday's post; it's going to be a good day. On good days and...

I went for a ride on Sunday. When I left my house, the sky was bright and gay. When I got to my halfway point — East Tennessee's...

So you want to start a blog? And you want to be successful? Good luck. There are more than 600 million blogs on the internet today...

One of my favorite views in Knoxville is from the parking lot at U.T.'s visitor's center. Nestled into the hill on the west side of...

Just start, they said. And so I did. After years of procrastinating, on a day when the power went out—when there was no internet; no...