by design | Feb 26, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
A Downed Tree Sparks Memories By Joe Rector Well, it took 9 ½ inches of snow, several inches of rain, and the runoff from the upper yard to do it, but the old pine tree at the end of the woods finally came crashing down. It occurred at about 9:30 p.m. Amy came into...
by design | Feb 19, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Men panic, women think By Joe Rector We all know the book “Men Are from Mars and Women Are from Venus.” Without reading the book, any man who’s been married for a few years can vouch for that. Some of the more heated arguments Amy and I have experienced were because...
by design | Feb 12, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Lighting Lives By Joe Rector With a snowfall that this area hadn’t seen in a long while and the pouring rains that followed gone, I was feeling good about the warm spell that allowed me to be outside. Then over the weekend, a call came to my wife that darkened even...
by design | Feb 5, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Cable news isn’t news By Joe Rector I’ve always liked the news on television. My generation was lucky enough to have anchors such as Huntley and Brinkley, Frank Reynolds, and the GOAT, Walter Cronkite. Back then, we had a half-hour local news report, and then the...
by design | Jan 29, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
Two Men By Joe Rector I know an older man who has been around the area for a long time. He grew up in the Ball Camp community and went to the elementary school when it was grades 1-8. Like all the boys he grew up with, he played baseball, basketball and football,...
by design | Jan 22, 2024 | Columnist, Rector
The Snow Did Return By Joe Rector It snowed. I’d about decided that we humans had screwed up the environment so much that snow would never fall on East Tennessee again. I’m glad to see I was wrong. At our house, I took my tape measure and stuck it in the white stuff...
