Posted on January 26th, 2012 by Cynthia Moxley
After a hellish 10 days of fighting rain, hail, mud and snow on the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” build site in West Knoxville, Alan and I were ready for a little down time when last Friday rolled around.
We have come to really admire a little project called CAC Beardsley Community Farm. Beardsley Community Farm is [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2012 by Cynthia Moxley
Nearly 1,000 folks showed up Wednesday for a pep rally whose purpose was to introduce the senior producer of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and let him tell us what to expect next week when the Emmy-winning TV series rolls into town to tape a Knoxville episode.
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Posted on January 3rd, 2012 by Cynthia Moxley
For the past 11 years, we have been celebrating News Year’s Eve with two other couples: Richard and Dawn Ford and Jackie and Ray Fisher. Sometimes we go out to eat, sometimes we go to a party, and sometimes we watch the ball drop at Market Square.
This year we did all three. And we saw [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
“An Evening in Paris” was the theme last Saturday for the Symphony Ball, an annual gala produced by the Knoxville Symphony League to benefit the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. But as Alan and I drove west on Lyons View Pike toward Cherokee Country Club where the event was being held, the venue could not have looked [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
School is back in session now and things have settled into a routine. It’s easy to forget how stressful those last few days of summer were when school supplies and clothes were being bought amid anticipation and concern about what the new school year would hold. I remember when I was a child how worried [...]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
I’d like to take a break from all the fun parties and downtown happenings to share with you some information about my family in the hopes it can help you if you are facing a similar situation.
My father, James D. Moxley, Sr., will turn 79 next month. Dad, who is twice a widower, until about [...]
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Posted on August 19th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
The agents from the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission were very nice when they called the Market Square Farmers’ Market folks this week to inform them that the popular Market Square Mixer Cocktail Contest was illegal. But they weren’t so pleasant when they called the seven downtown restaurants that were to participate in the contest this [...]
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Posted on July 13th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
It started when I was browsing Twitter the other day and realized my friend Randall Brown from the News Sentinel was on a beach somewhere. His tweet: “Exchange at beach bar: What do you have along the line of non-alcoholic drinks? Barkeep: What do you mean?” Hahaha. I thought that was amusing.
Later, he had a [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
If you need another short get-away, in the same amount of time it takes you to drive to Chattanooga (click here for a blog post about that), you can fly to Chicago! Of course it may cost a little more.
Here are some recommendations from a recent visit we made to the Windy City.
First, the restaurants. [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2011 by Cynthia Moxley
Do you ever want to get away just for a little bit? No big time or money commitment, but just take a little break?
That’s what we wanted a couple of weeks ago when my brother and sister-in-law came to visit. They had spent a long weekend in Knoxville and planned to continue their vacation in [...]
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