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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
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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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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: November 11, 2018
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BOB MCKINNEY: What I know

I had been preparing – in my mind, anyway – my post-mortem on the election since the results were in last ...

I had been preparing – in my mind, anyway – my post-mortem on the election since the results were in last Tuesday night. Since I can already sense your collective “here we go again” eye roll, I’ll put ...

November 11, 2018
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RAMON PRESSON: An odd thing Trump and I have in common

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: November 06, 2018
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RAMON PRESSON: An odd thing Trump and I have in common

Shortly after the 2016 Presidential election I noted in a November 15 column that Donald Trump and I had ...

Shortly after the 2016 Presidential election I noted in a November 15 column that Donald Trump and I had something unusual in common. (You can read the entire column at https://bit.ly/2JBx8KR) But aft ...

November 06, 2018
| by Mark Cook

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RAMON PRESSON: A letter to my new billionaire friend in South Carolina

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: October 30, 2018
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RAMON PRESSON: A letter to my new billionaire friend in South Carolina

Hello, and congratulations on winning the $1.6 billion lottery jackpot. I imagine you still haven’t gotte ...

Hello, and congratulations on winning the $1.6 billion lottery jackpot. I imagine you still haven’t gotten over the pleasant shock of being the lucky winner, and I bet you keep wondering, “How am I go ...

October 30, 2018
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OPINION: Domestic abusers often seek control through legal system, but new law can curtail the harassment

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: October 29, 2018
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OPINION: Domestic abusers often seek control through legal system, but new law can curtail the harassment

By AIMEE LUNA attorney, Legal Aid Society When we think of domestic violence, we often picture physical a ...

By AIMEE LUNA attorney, Legal Aid Society When we think of domestic violence, we often picture physical abuse. But the truth is, abusive behavior within a relationship can exist in many forms. At its ...

October 29, 2018
| by Mark Cook

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RAMON PRESSON: What you didn’t know about your birthday

Posted by Mark Cook
|Date: October 23, 2018
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RAMON PRESSON: What you didn’t know about your birthday

“Birthdays are the one day of the year that everyone has to be nice to you.” --- Liza, age 7 The birth of ...

“Birthdays are the one day of the year that everyone has to be nice to you.” --- Liza, age 7 The birth of birthdays The idea of celebrating the date of your birth is actually a pagan tradition. In fac ...

October 23, 2018
| by Mark Cook

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