Today is Monday, December 5, 2016, and it is a rather chilly, rainy morning. And everyone who lives in my beloved mountains is thrilled...

Downtown Knoxville is absolutely beautiful. I snapped this picture from my office window on the twenty-first floor of the "premier"...

Well, friends, it's been a wild ride the past few weeks, but the dust is quickly settling and very, VERY soon I will begin posting on a...

Self-reflection can be draining. You start thinking of where you need to improve, all the stupid things you've done in your life, all...

My maternal grandfather's name is Thomas Ezra Crowder. "T. E." grew up in the era when many men went by T. E. or J.C. or H.L. T. E....

Self-confidence can be a very unpredictable thing. One minute you feel like you're doing okay in life, and the next minute, you feel...

Writers write because words form within that simply must come out. It often doesn't matter whether anyone reads the words or not; the...

So in the wee hours of this morning, after weeks of waiting, after spending one entire week in early April devoting every waking hour to...

I'm not twenty-four anymore. I'm not thirty-four, either, according to any sort of official "record" - not my birth certificate, or my...

How are you? My BFF texted me last night: How are you?!! Such a simple question. How are you?!! Such a sweet and thoughtful and...