I believe there may be a secret plot to corner the world’s known supply of earbud covers. The spongy little things seem to disappear all too frequently. Revelant History seems to try to keep up where you can buy them...

We had the Stanley Family Reunion on Saturday in Wolf Laurel. It was nice weather and about 40 people were there. Everybody seemed to have a good time. See some photos. And see the reunion site.

I found “the nashville nobody knows” searching through the podcasts on iTunes. Looks like a nice podcast program. Anybody who interviews Sam Bush, Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott has Producer Candace Corrigan, a singer/songwriter herself, at least has good taste...

Noticed on Michael Silence’s blog, Katie Allison Granju’s and Bob Stepno’s that former News Sentinel reporter Jesse Fox Mayshark has started a ezine, The Red State Reader. Best of luck to you, Jesse. It will be interesting to see how...

I didn’t mention this here when it happened … I didn’t want to dwell on it. I turned 50 on the 16th. It sounds old; it doesn’t feel that way. Thirty was OK, 40 was OK. …. 50 … hmmm...

In late August the online producers at KnoxNews.com started doing RandomThis a sort of vlog or vblog thing (a blog that consists of video posts). It works like this: Each week one of the producers posts a video piece that...

We went for a boat ride on Badin Lake on Saturday near sunset…. (click to see a larger version)

A cable repairman managed to cut off our cable service Friday afternoon while repairing a neighbor’s service. It took Comcast until Saturday evening to get another repair guy out to repair the damage of the first “repair guy.” I don’t...

We are rolling out RSS feeds on knoxnews using the Scripps-built tool. Some say we were overdue – and perhsps we are – but many of our users have no idea of what an RSS reader is and why they...

Here are some photos from our vacation in London. We had a great time and the weather cooperated. We stayed in Bexleyheath, about a 30 minute train ride from central London.