Consider the opening lines of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables: Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England...

In 1942, during World War II, the United States government issued a blackout order: "Such preparations shall be made as will completely...

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...

On the first day of every semester, before going over the syllabus, I ask my English 101 students to introduce themselves. “Tell us your...

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...

I don't actually have writer's block, but I am packing to go to California and don't have time for a normal post today. I originally...