by Jan Turrentine | Aug 6, 2004 | Opinion
Historians say President George Washington was charged in 1789 with violating a law against unnecessarily walking or riding on Sunday when he traveled from Connecticut to New York. He was reportedly on his way to church at the time. Sales of everything from...
by Jan Turrentine | Jul 30, 2004 | Opinion
Apart from the department secretary, a 60-something, frequently dour woman whose desk was mercifully way down the hall, I was the lone female in the office of my first full-time job out of college. My coworkers were a racially, ethnically, socially and religiously...
by Jan Turrentine | Jul 23, 2004 | Opinion
Coming soon to a venue near you: a rally focusing on a 5,280-pound granite monument of the Ten Commandments. The American Veterans Standing for God and Country, a Texas-based group, recently reached an agreement with Roy Moore, the monument’s owner, allowing the...
by Jan Turrentine | Jul 16, 2004 | Opinion
“Run faster, jump higher,” the television commercial many years ago teased. Children were convinced they could achieve greater levels of speed and height simply by wearing a particular brand of shoes. My mother bought me two pairs of those shoes at the...
by Jan Turrentine | Jul 9, 2004 | Opinion
Unlike some people whose vocations require that they relocate frequently, I can count on one hand the number of times I have moved. Prior to moving to Nashville in late 2002, I had lived in the same city 19 years, the last 12 in the same house. Unlike some people...
