Category: knoxville

Grrr.

Step one: Find the perfect venue for an end of eighth grade party/dance. Step two: Sundown in the City schedule ruins perfectness of venue. Step three: Find different, but equally awesome venue. Step four: Principal changes date of event and neither venue is available. Step five: Pound head on wall for several hours. Step six: […]

thinking like a 7-y-o

In the wee hours of the morning, I heard thunder and pulled the covers up tighter. Doug went to check for flooding and/or tree damage. Evan crawled in our bed for snugglies. When we all got out of bed a few hours later, we learned the noise was something worse than any of us imagined. […]

forecast parking update

In what has to be a rarer occurrence than a Bigfoot sighting, everyone in Knoxville woke up to snow on Saturday. It may have been gone by afternoon, but for a few blissful hours, the children and dogs may as well have been riding unicorns down rainbows.

no school left behind

When a very opinionated senior wasn’t entertaining me with his tales and ideas that made me grit my teeth (“You don’t need school if you’re going to pour concrete.”), I spent Saturday listening to people discuss the unacceptable graduation statistics in our school system. While we were separated into smaller groups based on each public […]

Chairback Supply Packs

“Since launching in 2000, DonorsChoose.org has empowered more than 200,000 teachers and citizen philanthropists to become change makers. Our vision is of a nation where students in every community have the resources they need to learn.” A small Knox County school has a common sense project posted on DonorsChoose.org that needs to be funded. Please […]

odds & ends

Since High School Tour 2009 will be published Tuesday morning, here is some of the stuff that won’t be included in the print or online versions of the tour. While I sat in the school office, woman number one pulled out her cell phone to call someone and get copies of paperwork needed to complete […]

Doug says:

Doug: “What would YOU do with the empty strip mall where K-Mart used to be?” Me: “A skating rink would be fun to have nearby.” Doug: “I’d build an entertainment complex with a restaurant/bar and fighting robots.” Me: “Ummm, yeah. I don’t think that’s going to happen.” Doug: “It will if you give away my […]