How do you decide where to travel next?

Back in 2014, we were debating where to go for the next summer's vacation. Would it be Iceland or Cuba? A bookstore in town had gone out of business a few years before, so I wiped their travel section clean to have research materials at the ready when we want...

by Yvonne Andes

The summer of 1968 was brutal

The heat, the Vietnam war was still raging, Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, Martin Luther King’s assassination in April. It seemed death had the country by the throat. And now there were rumblings on the news about something called the Manson Family com...

Have you ever looked at a huge tree that’s so beautiful on one side, but when you walk around it, there’s a place that’s rotting from the inside out? It looks fine from the road, but the side facing the woodsy-unknown is falling apart.

It will soon die. The entire tree, not just the back side.

If ...

Commentary: City living for city dwellers

by Sally Hendrick, Tennessee Lookout
December 20, 2021

Republished from Tennessee Lookout under Create Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

The brown and yellow smoke billowed in the distance, but I couldn’t tell how far away its origin was located. It looked...