by design | Aug 10, 2026 | Columnist, Steely
More Than A Day away By Mike Steely Several years ago, I asked what Focus readers collected, and the answers ran the gamut. My wife and I continue to collect, and one of my favorite things is coffee cups. Each cup in our wide collection represents trips,...
by design | Jul 13, 2026 | Columnist, Steely
A Day Away By Mike Steely Sometimes a side trip during a journey to somewhere else ends up being more interesting than the final destination. In our many years of traveling on business and for pleasure, my wife and I have discovered some unexpected jewels of places...
by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Steely
A Day Away By Mike Steely As I’ve shared before, my wife and I have visited most of Tennessee’s state parks as well as many parks in our surrounding states and several national parks. A new Tennessee park is now on our bucket list, and it looks very, very...
by design | Jun 1, 2026 | Columnist, Steely
A Day Away By Mike Steely Maybe my interest in curious East Tennessee town names is because I’m from a little town with an unusual name. I was born in Jellico, Tennessee, an 1880s coal mining and railroad hub on the Kentucky border. I found that the name comes...
by design | May 26, 2026 | Columnist, Steely
A Day Way By Mike Steely Most Tennesseans know that Huntsville is the seat of Scott County and has a historic and spooky jailhouse and the Howard Baker family home. But the little town, just about an hour northwest of Knoxville, has something that gets little...
by design | Apr 13, 2026 | Columnist, Steely
A Day Away By Mike Steely I’ve been thinking recently of the many places my wife and I have visited that have left a memory. I had a position for several years that required me to travel to various southern states and, on those trips, my wife accompanied me. We...
