The roller coaster ride called health…

This has been a long week in the roller coaster ride of my sweet mother’s health. Tuesday night, toward the end my glorious ultimate pedicure at Salon Visage on Market Square, I picked up my phone to call…

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Meat and two, Thursday night out…

This week is restaurant week in Knoxville.  Participating restaurants are offering special 3 course meals for $25-35/per person and donating $5/per meal to Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee.  Restaurant Week has been planned for a…

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Anthony Creek Trail, Campsite 9, and Backpack #73…

Backpack #73 is in the books and we had a great time!  The weekend kicked off around 7:00 PM  Friday night when John’s nephew, Will, arrived.  We initially planned to take him to Barley’s in the Old City for…

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Getting “it” back…

Weather has been great this week, an early spring of sorts.  I would give the groundhog credit for getting it right but the temperature is dropping to the low 30’s tonight and the same tomorrow night.…

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Glacier planning…

After some months of reading, mapping, plotting and conversation, the trail plans for a late summer backpack in Glacier National Park have come together.  I faxed the request to the National Park Service today.  Now we wait for April…

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