Cook: Rick Steves, eat your heart out, the Carisches return
Ever feel like your family isn't as happy as it could be? Like you're in a rut? An overscheduled, under-rested, for-the-hundredth-time-please-put-down-your-screen rut?
Cook: Grief and the violence of July 16
The five servicemen killed on July 16? Their lives mattered. Immeasurably. Indescribably so.
Cook: Among Chattanooga sports, what’s the score?
Something has shifted.
Cook: The democracy and freedoms of Miller Park
At three different public gatherings last week, city leaders and design consultants brainstormed with citizens about ideas on how to transform Miller Park, the city's oldest downtown park.
Cook: As we lay dying
Saw the most beautiful thing the other day.
Cook: A columnist looks at 42
Not long ago, my wife told me about something called the "Six Word Memoir." Created by Smith magazine, the idea is to summarize your life story in six words.
Cook: Four poems about the last seven days shared to ease city’s pain
As Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire last week, Nathan Bell was with his daughter in a photographer's studio, as she posed for her senior pictures.
Cook: The universal wound of Lee Highway
Violence is a breach in the natural order of things; to suffer violence feels like a rupture, like having something proper and holy torn apart.
Cook: The semantics of terrorism and the quest for peace
We have been presented with absolutely zero evidence that Mohammed Youssef Abdulazeez was a terrorist.
Cook: In the big heart of Chattanooga
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