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OPINION: Passover and Easter celebrate freedom and hope, animating America’s founding principles

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: April 15, 2019
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OPINION: Passover and Easter celebrate freedom and hope, animating America’s founding principles

By JC Bowman This weekend marks a Holy Week for many citizens across Tennessee and the world, as we celeb ...

By JC Bowman This weekend marks a Holy Week for many citizens across Tennessee and the world, as we celebrate Passover and Easter. In America, religious beliefs are critical to many of our founding pr ...

April 15, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: A one-on-one with Belmont’s Rick Byrd

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: April 02, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: A one-on-one with Belmont’s Rick Byrd

I was disappointed and saddened to learn that revered Belmont basketball coach Rick Byrd retired on April ...

I was disappointed and saddened to learn that revered Belmont basketball coach Rick Byrd retired on April 1. I wanted it to be an April Fools Day joke. It was not. Several years ago I had the opportun ...

April 02, 2019
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AMY DISMUKES: A homegrown tradition

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: March 30, 2019
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AMY DISMUKES: A homegrown tradition

ABOVE: A cherry tree in bloom, a sign of spring anticipated around the world. // AMY DISMUKES ONE, ...

ABOVE: A cherry tree in bloom, a sign of spring anticipated around the world. // AMY DISMUKES ONE, TWO … TREE! With spring on the way, everyone is itching to get outside and dig in the dirt. No ...

March 30, 2019
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BOB MCKINNEY: Millenials, Gen Z, and then what?

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: March 24, 2019
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BOB MCKINNEY: Millenials, Gen Z, and then what?

In addition to what I have learned about personality types in the workplace, which I shared here last wee ...

In addition to what I have learned about personality types in the workplace, which I shared here last week, I’ve also been exposed to a fair amount of data on the various generations and how they have ...

March 24, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: The one big problem with the three little words

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: February 19, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: The one big problem with the three little words

In a recent scientific poll that I completely made up, “I love you” has been overtaken as the most freque ...

In a recent scientific poll that I completely made up, “I love you” has been overtaken as the most frequently used three-word phrase in America by another three-word phrase -- “Where’s my phone?” Actu ...

February 19, 2019
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: January 20, 2019
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

In late 2003, Scott Harrison was ready to make a change. After ten years as a nightclub promoter in New Y ...

In late 2003, Scott Harrison was ready to make a change. After ten years as a nightclub promoter in New York City and living the fast life that accompanied it, a mysterious physical numbness, for whic ...

January 20, 2019
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A HOMEGROWN TRADITION: Be a winter gardener

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: January 19, 2019
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A HOMEGROWN TRADITION: Be a winter gardener

Just because the weather is cold and the leaves are gone, doesn’t mean the gardening season is over. Ther ...

Just because the weather is cold and the leaves are gone, doesn’t mean the gardening season is over. There are plenty of things to do when it’s cold and wet outside! I’ve found if I get all the ‘clean ...

January 19, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: Join me at Email Hoarders Anonymous

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: January 15, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: Join me at Email Hoarders Anonymous

I currently have 26,439 unread e-mails in my Gmail inbox. No, I’m not kidding. Oh wait, now it's up to 26 ...

I currently have 26,439 unread e-mails in my Gmail inbox. No, I’m not kidding. Oh wait, now it's up to 26,442. Relax, people, most of them are not important -- just ads, newsletters, and a few legal n ...

January 15, 2019
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: January 14, 2019
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

One of the ways I cope with the early January post-holiday letdown is the anticipation of one of my favor ...

One of the ways I cope with the early January post-holiday letdown is the anticipation of one of my favorite lists, the “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and Gener ...

January 14, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: A Conversation with Elvis Presley’s Paperboy, Part 1

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: January 07, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: A Conversation with Elvis Presley’s Paperboy, Part 1

Jim Arthur is a retired attorney from Memphis who moved with his wife, Jill, to Franklin in 2012. Jim gre ...

Jim Arthur is a retired attorney from Memphis who moved with his wife, Jill, to Franklin in 2012. Jim grew up in the Blues City, not far from Graceland. In 1957, at age 12, Jim was the paperboy who ha ...

January 07, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: Surreal estate and the Realtors who live/love It

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: January 01, 2019
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RAMON PRESSON: Surreal estate and the Realtors who live/love It

As I write this at my bay window on a relaxing Sunday afternoon, I know that many of my Realtor friends a ...

As I write this at my bay window on a relaxing Sunday afternoon, I know that many of my Realtor friends are dodging traffic to drive an Open House sign into the frozen ground at a busy intersection, o ...

January 01, 2019
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JC BOWMAN: Lasting relationships are the best gift of all

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: December 24, 2018
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JC BOWMAN: Lasting relationships are the best gift of all

THE BEST GIFT OF ALL By JC Bowman Humans are not designed to live alone. We are by nature designed to liv ...

THE BEST GIFT OF ALL By JC Bowman Humans are not designed to live alone. We are by nature designed to live together in community to reach our full potential. English poet John Donne wrote that “No man ...

December 24, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: December 23, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

Do you find it comical that you can find all kinds of tips for having “stress free holidays?” I know I do ...

Do you find it comical that you can find all kinds of tips for having “stress free holidays?” I know I do. As I write this, I just finished reading an article in which the writer told me all the thing ...

December 23, 2018
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RAMON PRESSON: I received a legal notice from the Tooth Fairy

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: December 18, 2018
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RAMON PRESSON: I received a legal notice from the Tooth Fairy

On Saturday I chomped down on some barbecue and one of my lower molars found a small hidden piece of bone ...

On Saturday I chomped down on some barbecue and one of my lower molars found a small hidden piece of bone. To my dismay, in the battle between enamel and bone, enamel lost; and a large fragment of my ...

December 18, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: December 16, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

From my childhood and throughout my adult life I have always favored a real Christmas tree, as in one tha ...

From my childhood and throughout my adult life I have always favored a real Christmas tree, as in one that grew from the dirt. I don’t say “live” tree because, well, I’m no scientist, but I’m guessing ...

December 16, 2018
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RAMON PRESSON: PETA people picked a prickly pepper

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: December 11, 2018
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RAMON PRESSON: PETA people picked a prickly pepper

I’m not making this up. This past week the PETA organization requested that we stop using the phrase “Bri ...

I’m not making this up. This past week the PETA organization requested that we stop using the phrase “Bring home the bacon,” insisting that it is comparable to racist and homophobic language. The Peop ...

December 11, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: December 09, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

A couple of years ago, as my wife and I were on a several-hour car trip, she suggested we listen to a pod ...

A couple of years ago, as my wife and I were on a several-hour car trip, she suggested we listen to a podcast that included an interview with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of “Hamilton: An American ...

December 09, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I Know

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: December 02, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I Know

With Thanksgiving behind us, the Christmas season is now fully upon us. But let’s be honest. The Christma ...

With Thanksgiving behind us, the Christmas season is now fully upon us. But let’s be honest. The Christmas season was fully upon us after Halloween. And no, this will not be another rant about how it ...

December 02, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: November 18, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

Full disclosure: this is almost a complete re-posting of my Thanksgiving column from 2012. When I read th ...

Full disclosure: this is almost a complete re-posting of my Thanksgiving column from 2012. When I read through previous Thanksgiving installments, I realized much of what I wrote that year would be tr ...

November 18, 2018
| by Mark Cook

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RAMON PRESSON: Bullets & wildfires from the perspective of a witness PART 1

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: November 12, 2018
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RAMON PRESSON: Bullets & wildfires from the perspective of a witness PART 1

After graduating from nearby Christ Presbyterian Academy in 2014, Annie Carpenter enrolled at Pepperdine ...

After graduating from nearby Christ Presbyterian Academy in 2014, Annie Carpenter enrolled at Pepperdine University on the California coast directly west of Los Angeles. Annie graduated from Pepperdin ...

November 12, 2018
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