Category Archives: general

Welcome to election year! True confession:  When I was a kid, I looked forward to election day almost as much as Christmas. Growing up in a country store, we didn’t… Read more »

Back in my country store days, an insurance salesman would come in for a snack now and then.  One day, he encountered one of his prospective customers. The salesman said,… Read more »

During the past few years, I have done more than two hundred programs at clubs and churches to talk about my books.  I love sharing stories about the people who… Read more »

A while back, I wrote a few stories about speaking Southern. (“What in the Sam Hill are you doing?” “Drunker than Cooter Brown,” “I Found it in the Chester Drawers,”… Read more »

UPDATE: Sammie Welch has donated the entire tie collection of the great Don Welch!  You now have the opportunity to get 37 genuine TV anchorman ties for just $100.  I’ll… Read more »

  We’ve lost another of Chattanooga’s great TV broadcast pioneers.  Gilbert Norwood Lusk, known professionally as Gil Norwood has passed away.  He was news director and news anchor for WTVC… Read more »

As heard on Big 95.3 FM and Big953.com Saturday and Sunday 12 noon to 2 p.m. VINYL EXPRESS PLAYLIST FOR 4-14-18 HOUR 1 Spring of 1981 Don’t Stand So Close… Read more »

Here’s my latest roundup of spelling fails.  They’re easy to find.  You see them on signs at stores (or on the highway), and especially, social media.  Each time I write… Read more »

It finally happened.  I have a fart story to tell. I’ve always been jealous of Bob Brandy.  The legendary local cowboy/kid’s show host had a memorable story, that has been… Read more »

Behind every great picture is a great story.  Here is one of those stories: Joe Warren had seen that look before.  As a twenty-year traffic investigator for the Chattanooga Police… Read more »