

Get Going!
Chickamauga Quarry, Chattanooga TN "When I get things going The going gets rough So I ask myself Why get up” - Bill Carter, Ruth Ellen Ellsworth (recorded by the Fabulous Thuderbirds) You know I love to celebrate The National Day Calendar. I love the goofy ones (static electricity gets a day?) and the foody ones - I’m all for finding a reason to “mini” cheat on my diet. Today won’t put on any weight but it might take some off - it’s National Get Up Day. Begun in 2017, the


Uneven Ground, part II – “…turn the other also.”
“Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a...


Uneven Ground, part I - “Go and do likewise”
“Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a...


I Thought I Heard...
"I thought I heard..." them say you could hear the sound of his loud and wild cornet across the river in Algiers - when he played in New...


Meandering to Memphis, part 2
After taking a more direct route home from Rhode Island, I went back to work, back to the political games of who did what, back to biding...


Memphis Magic - Honoring Charlie Burse
I’ll tell the story again and again about my search for the grave of Charlie Burse Sr. How Dr. T. DeWayne Moore, Executive Director of...


Meandering to Memphis, part 1
This is the beginning of a new project - so I'll start at the beginning - I know and respect people who plan their lives, careers, moves,...


Mississippi Mosey - "In Honor of a Camden Legacy"
When I am standing in Rose Hill Cemetery, I see a beautiful piece of ground in a gritty city. A lot of things ran through my mind while...



