Can I see them as I see my own children? Trayvon? Ahmaud? Emmett? As a white father, can I see George Floyd as a brother or son?

At some point in my young adulthood, my mother took me aside and told me something brutally honest.

Since Memorial Day, 12 states have reported increases in hospitalizations due to SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many Americans are surprised to learn that in U.S. presidential elections, the members of the Electoral College do not necessarily have to pick the candidate the voters in their state favored.

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There's a good chance that a corporate statement starting with the words "not wanting to be in the political discourse" or something like that is becoming the modern version of "with all due respect" when the next part has very little respect offered.

All American women vote today thanks to Tennessee, yet that message is largely unknown in our state.

It has been a terrible year so far.

How uncertain are these times? Well, a T-shirt with the OAN logo on it made Mike Gundy, a college football coach who earns several million dollars a year at Oklahoma State, apologize. Twice.

Colleges spend a ton of time and money trying to turn freshmen into sophomores.

As I hope you know, this August's election, for which anyone in Tennessee can apply to vote absentee, contains not only state and federal primaries, but also county Board of Education races in districts 1, 2, 4, and 7.

There's a shortage of some qualities in our national character.

In these very difficult days, many of us have deepened our spiritual practices, like prayer and meditation. And yoga.

One day last week, our 18-year-old son was simultaneously watching three video screens.

Well, the cancel circle has expanded.

Having spent more than 30 years as an educator and principal, I love to spend time with children and adolescents.

The justifiable anger that rippled through the country over the killing of George Floyd spawned unjustifiable looting and rioting. Restoring order to protect people and property is the first job of a mayor.

Should I laugh or cringe when reporters say that today's protests aren't new and similar protests go all the way back to the Civil Rights movement?

It's a topsy-turvy time we are living in. We're all cooped up. Antsy.

You're aware of the cancel culture, right?

The first time I met Lumber Morrison was on the golf course.

Like so many others, I have been consumed in recent days with the events unfolding across our nation.

White Chattanooga, I know so many of you. Love so many of you.