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mark-gillispie's picture
Mar.29.2013
Forgive me, readers, for the gap in this narrative. I've not been able to write and am unsure I have much to say. The last month has been far more difficult than I'd ever imagined. They told me the effects of treatment were “cumulative.” What they didn't explain was how that accumulation would...
rand-bishop's picture
Nov.27.2010
On Thanksgiving morning, a letter to the editor published in The Tennessean really curdled my cheese. The author of the irksome missive purported that unemployment rates are so high in this country because too many folks are simply too proud to be greeters at Walmart. He went on to accuse those who...