Posted on January 31st, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
On Sunday when you are watching the Super Bowl, you will probably contribute to a violent disruption in the nation’s power grid.
Whenever there is a touchdown, a commercial and at halftime, the demand for electricity will surge. Speculation is that folks take those opportunities to open the refrigerator, stick something in the microwave or take [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
With two husbands celebrating birthdays within a month of each other, the Fords and the Carmoxes decided to try something different. Since Richard Ford is an inveterate meat lover, a trip to Brazeiros, the new Brazilian steakhouse on Kingston Pike in Bearden, seemed in order.
And it was. We had a blast, as these photos will [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Author and lifestyle expert Moll Anderson had some of us in tears last week when she gave an impromptu talk to a meeting of the group that calls itself Purses with Purpose.
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Posted on January 24th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
If you want an annual opportunity to be inspired, let me strongly recommend to you the Leadership Awards Luncheon put on by the Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Commission. Extremely well-attended (more than 500 people this year), the event features a keynote speaker who rarely fails to either bring the audience to tears or to its [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Although media reports generally have characterized the Bill Haslam inaugural festivities as low-key and frugal (click here and here for those stories), the night definitely provided ample opportunity for fun.
Haslam had toured the state during the prior week meeting citizens in events that were completely free of charge. In Nashville on inauguration night, a series [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
I had only been to one inauguration before this weekend: Bill Clinton’s. It wasn’t that much fun. We tromped around in the cold rain only to end up packed into a warehouse-like space where the closest we got to food or drink was hearing a rumor that there was some.
Then the Clintons came in, [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
I guess we were feeling kind of stir crazy. When I saw the Facebook post that said Elvis was going to be celebrating his 76th birthday at Sweet P’s BBQ, it just seemed like a great place to be on Saturday! And it was!
Sweet P’s is owned by Christopher Ford, the son of two of [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
• “He said all the right things.”
• “He seems like a good guy. And he’s from UT!”
• “He doesn’t seem like a loose cannon!”
Those were some of the comments heard in the crowd of nearly 300 business people gathered at the Knoxville Convention Center Monday to welcome the new University of Tennessee president, Joe DiPietro.
The [...]
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