Sometimes I dream that I am sitting in typing class at Middle Tennessee State University.

We turn on a water tap in our homes with the expectation that the water that flows will be free of contaminants.

Principal Cherokee Chief John Ross had tried to save his people from removal but, while he failed in that endeavor, he was somewhat successful in negotiating the terms of the forced removal.

A huge thank you to the employees from Northgate RV Center in Ringgold, Georgia. They donated a new RV to the Erlanger Event Medicine Team.

Here is my annual ADD list of random things I was thankful for this year.

I hope you have plenty to be thankful for on Thursday. Too much even.

It has been 100 years since World War I formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in the summer of 1919. Months earlier, in November 1918, Americans had celebrated an especially joyous Thanksgiving with the German surrender and ending of hostilities in Europe.

When I was growing up in the late 1960s, my dad would corral me every year in February to make our annual trip to Nashville to buy clothes.

I found a June 3, 1940, issue of Life magazine in an unexplored file from my parents' home. The cover featured a stark, nighttime photograph of the Statue of Liberty and the theme of the issue: "America and the World."

The debate over the last battle of the American Revolution has gone on for years.

Freeman Webb Company has donated $40,000 to three nonprofit organizations to commemorate the company's 40th anniversary.

You're all county commissioners, and last Sunday, you each no-showed one of the most important events of the year.

The TFP's business team had a story earlier this week on the worst toys of this holiday season.

Reporters haven't lacked for stories about hate groups and lone wolves, whether it's Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue, Milwaukee's acid attack on a Latino, Dallas' shooting of a transgender woman, or El Paso's Walmart massacre.

The latest taxpayer-funded community theater production of "Get Trump" is playing in Washington, D.C., under the direction of Adam Schiff. It's a real "Schiff Show."

At issue was what can people do on their property, and what they can't.

Does Colin Kaepernick want to play in the NFL?

Don't want to talk impeachment. Not yet.

Have you noticed there are a lot of old guys who like to use the term "snowflake" to describe young people? (Underline "old" and "guys.")

In July 1965, Congress approved and President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation establishing Medicare. Benefits began 18 months later.

If the Cherokee Nation's future seemed perilous in late 1834, it was about to take a disastrous turn in 1835. While Chief John Ross and his delegation had been in Washington, D.C., once again attempting to persuade President Andrew Jackson to honor former commitment to the Nation, the situation was intensifying in Georgia.

Georgia Northwestern Technical College's precision machining and manufacturing program on the Floyd County Campus and Whitfield Murray campus was presented with a gift of $22,000 from the Gene Haas Foundation for student scholarships.

OK, with all apologies to fortune cookies, any mystic tarot card readers and all Magic-8 balls around, I'm going to predict the future.