Cook: Howard wants to serve you
You know what some students at The Howard School are always saying to their teachers? Pestering, bugging, nagging. Those pesky kids.
Cook: Don’t let Robin Thicke escape
The first time I heard "Blurred Lines" was when my son walked by, singing the lyrics.
Cook: Loving America
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
Cook: Things to come
Stopped by the neighborhood pharmacy last week for allergy medicine, and wound up buying a copy of the 2014 Farmer's Almanac.
Cook: Rick Bragg’s SouthHead three: Rick Bragg and Backbone
On Friday, Rick Bragg, the man Shakespeare would have been had he grown up in North Alabama, spoke for nearly an hour without notes to a chapel full of McCallie School students, then had lunch with a dozen or so more in John Lambert's English class.
Cook: Budgeting for something
After Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke announced his budgeting-for-outcomes plan, I cheered. It's intelligent, cutting-edge, responsible.
Cook: The church that stole Jesus
I wish someone would stampede in, overturn your tables and drive the homophobic madness from your pulpit. Exorcise you.
Cook: To give or not to give
In fundraising and philanthropy circles, they call it The Ask.
Cook: Chattanooga is the endurance capital of America
With the announcement of the Chattanooga Ironman, it's high time we went ahead and said it.
Cook: Our smoking, sitting butts
Before we add the latest item to the list, let's review our crinkled, wrinkled collection of Things That Are Bad For Us.
