Suddenly, everybody is drinking the beer that my dad used to drink in the ’70s. And they aren’t people even remotely resembling my dad.
The hip beer these days is, of all things, Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Our great client, Cherokee Distributing Company, distributes Pabst in this area. While Pabst sales were up nationwide by 18 percent last [...]

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Our friends Dawn and Richard Ford love holidays. They love holidays so much that if there is not a holiday when they think there should be one, they invent a holiday. Case in point: Apple Day.
Apple Day started when their son, Christopher (who is now in his mid-30s), was about six years old. Dawn and [...]

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Why do a bunch of hard-charging career women gather once a month to play a game that, by definition, is 100 percent luck and requires no skill whatsoever?
Beats me. But we started doing it a year ago and we love it. It’s Bunko, of course. We rotate hostess duties so each person has it at [...]

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They say that your favorite beach is always the beach you went to as a child. For me, that was the Gulf of Mexico. Specifically, Gulf Shores, Alabama.
But I think I might be converted.
This weekend, Alan and I joined our friend Susan Brown and her sweet family at Fripp Island, South Carolina, located 20 miles east of [...]

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Upscale clothier M.S. McClellan has been receiving what its owners describe as “anonymous, hateful, personal and harassing letters” and has sent out an appeal to its customers for help identifying the perpetrator.
In an e-mail sent today to customers, owners of the store, located in the Melrose Place shopping center on Kingston Pike, describe the troubling [...]

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Sometimes the best things in the fridge are the leftovers. Let’s hope it’s the same way with blog posts! Here are some random things we found when rummaging around our notebooks.

Get a load of the great dress Allison Burchett is wearing in this photo from the Front Page Follies evening at the downtown Marriott last [...]

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It’s like a clean New York. Maybe a little more manageable and a little more friendly. I guess you could say it’s New York Lite.
Alan and I just got back from Chicago, and we loved it. I’d been there before. To the airport, of course, and to our client U.S. Cellular’s offices. But they are [...]

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If you’ve had a colonoscopy - or plan to have one, as you should if you are over 50 - there is a near 100 percent chance you’ve had the drug that is suspected in the death of pop star Michael Jackson.
In East Tennessee, one of our newest clients, Gastrointestinal Associates (GIA), performs the vast [...]

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I think all of us want to know the secret to a long and successful marriage. A few weeks ago, Alan and I attended a small 40th anniversary dinner for a very special couple and we picked up a few tips.
Dawn and Richard Ford met in Germany in 1968. He was a U.S. soldier. She [...]

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Last Saturday evening, J. and Marion Allan were sitting on the porch of their home in Powell shortly before dinner. Eighty-year-old J. told Marion, his wife of just two years, that these were the happiest days of his life. And he told her how much he loved her.
Thirty minutes later, as Marion was in the [...]

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