Once A Knight ...

   In midday Aug. 22 last year, son-in-law -- Russell Smith, who is a sports talk show director/co-host in Knoxville -- sent me a text messa...

Howard and Nance on their wedding day.       Yesterday, the news came in the form of a text message. The day before, it was an e-mail. ...

    My wife says I'm miserable when my team loses, and miserable when my team wins.     Which makes me ... pretty happy. Which ma...

    O n my daily walk more than a decade ago in Knoxville, I saw a sign at a small shopping center near our house that read: "Vietnam W...

Granny Bea with Kaden and Jacob     We've reached 35 years today, Bea and I have. We were married on Feb. 6, 1977, in the living roo...

   Old joke: The groundhog saw his shadow Thursday -- six more weeks of college football recruiting.    Oh, no! Not more recruiting. Haven...

 Rose and Louis Van Thyn     I often think about this: What must it have been like for my parents coming back to Amsterdam after m...

 Rose and Louis Van Thyn, with symbols of the Holocaust    T he name of the book that I'm not going to write is Survivors' S...

Once a Knight, always a Knight ... but once a Knight is enough.    T hroughout most of the 1960s, a statue of a knight sat on Coach Jerry...