Ramblings of a Warped Mind

The Gray Line We Should Not Cross A short video circulated this week out of Knox County. In the video, […]

I will be at the Knoxville Book Festival May 2–3Knoxville Convention CenterKnoxville, Tennessee I will have a booth set up

American democracy rests on a simple premise that once required no defense: political parties choose their own candidates. Knox County

I did not expect to live to fifty. That line followed me for most of my life. I delivered it

There are backups, and then there are artifacts. Somewhere in a plastic storage container in my garage—beneath cables, old manuals,

Chicago gave us more than a weekend memory. Chicago gave us a reminder. At Trinket Fest, amid the noise of

Knox County did not set out to build a machine for manufacturing scandal. Knox County set out to build trust.

I did not know what JellyCat was. Lisa did. That was enough. So we stood in line for an hour

It appears that my book, The Art of the Compromise, has finally made its way into the right hands. After

In the current Knox County mayor’s race, one phrase appears again and again: run the county like a business. Closely