Ruminations on Easter
From The Seeking Pastor:
Easter is when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Regardless of what the critics may say, it really happened. Something that happens is true even if everyone thinks that it is a lie. Jesus really died to pay the price for our sins, He was really [...]
Read More..>>PHOTOBLOGGING: It’s easy to see why immigrants from the British Isles settled here
(I think I see a leprechaun peeking out from behind one of the ridges… )
Photo by Carrie Harvey.
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Have a magically delicious day
For your viewing pleasure, I give you the very first Lucky Charms commercial:
Via Dave and Thomas.
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Obama….or O’BAMA???!!!!
Can we really afford a leprechaun in the White House?
Thanks to Kleinheider
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This one goes out to the one I love
Happy Valentine’s Day to my Valentine.
He’s a good ‘un.
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Local blogosphere rings in 2008!
Today, East Tennessee bloggers are talking about saying goodbye to 2007 and ringing in 2008:
From Rich Hailey:
New Beginnings
Somewhere during the last 5+ years of doing this, I started to think it was important. I began to take it very seriously, working hard to research posts, trying to build solid arguments to make a strong case [...]
Not what Santa intended
An East Tennessee child received an MP3 player loaded with porn under the Christmas tree:
The Hills had bought three MP3 players for their children from a Wal-Mart store in Sparta, Tennessee.
It turns out one of the MP3 players had been returned to the store from a previous owner who loaded sex clips, graphic war [...]
New Year’s Resolutions for the famous
From the Christian Science Monitor.
Among my faves:
Hillary Clinton
1. Find a hobby for Bill
2. Suggest Wellesley start a football team
3. Find a second hobby for Bill
Queen Elizabeth
1. Throw out my mini skirts
2. Insist Phil stop eating peanuts in bed
3. Ask Helen Mirren if she’d like the job
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Sevierville is still a small town
Jon Hickman’s family accounting biz is located in downtown Sevierville:
Our office closed for lunch today, so we could have our Christmas dinner. We forwarded the phone, locked the doors, and hit the road.
Except we didn’t lock the door. And when the mail lady came by and noticed no one was here, she dropped off the [...]
December 26, a new holiday
Cathy over at Domestic Psychology proposes a new holiday for the day after Christmas (and it’s one I can realy get behind).
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What did Christmas Day look like at your house
We want to see your holiday photos.
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Maybe the holiday traffic sent him over the edge?
Man attacks cars with baseball bat at West Knox Sonic.
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One local preacher considers Festivus
He says the season is making him feel grinchy:
This time of year is great in so many ways, (Birth of Jesus and all), and so frustrating to me in just as many.
Most of my frustration has to do with cultural expectations that drag this wonderful time of Christmas down to a nauseating level. This expectation [...]
NORAD Santa update
My daughter Jane informs me she actually put a call in to NORAD this morning, and spoke to a real, live person at their Washington HQ, who told her that their satellite tracking projects that Santa will hit Tennessee at around 11:30 pm tonight.
The woman - bless her heart - also told Jane that this [...]
Remembering memorable Christmas Eves
Over at KnoxViews, folks are sharing their favorite Christmas Eve memories:
Dad was killed in a car wreck when I was eleven and Mom remarried a few years later to a man who would have made a fine character in a Dickens story. She finally left him two children later, with a small alimony which he [...]
Christmas Haiku
From Oak Ridge Haiku master, Atomic Tumor:
Its Christmas Eve Eve
And these days are the good days
Unless you’re a tree
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Tracking Santa
My children inform me that NORAD’s online Santa Tracker will be operational beginning at 3:00 am on the 24th. They know this because they’ve been checking it every few hours for the past day or two..
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Craftiness
Mermag shows off the beautiful handmade stockings she crafted for her family this year.
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Yes, Virginia, there WILL be a white Christmas
At least here at KnoxvilleTalks.com
Enjoy the snow, courtesy of my man Jon.
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The Bean meets Santa
MamaTried has posted an adorable photo of The Bean’s first encounter with The Jolly Old Elf.
I’ve never taken my kids for the traditional mall Santa photo - no doubt giving them something extra to complain about to their therapists in future years (”My slacker mother never took the trouble to hustle us out to West [...]
