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“Oh, what a world! What a world!
The sentiment was part of the death speech of The Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz”.
We all might be prompted to echo her …
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Mark McGee
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1/14/23
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As part of my exciting New Year’s Eve, I drove my mother around the square to look at the lights at night.
If you didn’t make a similar trip during this past holiday season you missed an …
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Mark McGee
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1/7/23
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Ever since 2008 I have had the privilege of serving as a United Methodist pastor.
During my time of service the congregations and I worshipped together, and we praised the Lord together.
We …
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Doug Dezotell
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1/7/23
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2023 could be one of Shelbyville’s best years.
Or it could turn out not so well. What we see by next New Year’s will depend on cooperation, ambition, and a forward-thinking …
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David Melson
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1/3/23
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Well, here it is! The last Saturday of 2022. And it’s my last Musings and Memories column of the year. Hopefully, I will have a brand new column for the first Saturday of 2023.
Oh, …
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Doug Dezotell
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12/31/22
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The other day a well-meaning person asked me if I was looking forward to the end of 2022.
Two deaths, one my father and the other my girlfriend of 25 years. Three surgeries of my own, including …
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Mark McGee
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12/31/22
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According to the Tennessee Department of Corrections, 94% of incarcerated people in Tennessee will be released in three years.
Lt. Chris Cook, programs director at the Bedford County Jail, asked a …
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Zoe Watkins - zwatkins@t-g.com
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12/31/22
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Hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas weekend!
As I look at my live Christmas tree…well at least it was alive at one time… I have made a major decision. I am switching to an …
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Mark McGee
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12/24/22
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On this Christmas weekend, I want to share the true Christmas Story with you from the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and John.
This, of course, is The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Luke 2:4-20: 4 And …
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Doug Dezotell
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12/24/22
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In the rough mountainous regions of the Western United States, there’s a tree known as the Bristlecone Pine.
These pine trees’ Latin name is Pinus longaeva, or ‘long-lived …
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Doug Dezotell
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12/17/22
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I never thought I would say I was ashamed of being part of the media, but I am.
I have been paid to write for public consumption since I was 17 years old. I have always enjoyed the field I …
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I want to invite you to join me on Christmas Eve at 6 p.m. for a Candlelight Communion Service at Cannon Methodist Church.
We will rejoice together as we celebrate the Birth of Christ through …
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Doug Dezotell
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12/10/22
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She didn’t have to die. The death of actress Kirstie Alley is a tragedy. What is even more tragic is she died from colon cancer.
Colon cancer can be contained and cured if caught …
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Mark McGee
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12/10/22
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Several years back, I walked in the front door as I returned home one evening, and I told my three granddaughters and their friend that there was a full moon that night.
They all ran out onto the …
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Doug Dezotell
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12/3/22
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It seems like everyone wants to be a part of Nashville.
As a baseball fan, I am hopeful Major League Baseball will make speculation a reality and name Nashville as one of two new venues …
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Mark McGee
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12/3/22
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I pray that every day is a day of thanksgiving for you. We all have so much to be thankful for.
There is a wonderful story that really touched my heart the first time I read it, and I like to …
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Doug
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11/26/22
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Pardon me while I put my Scrooge hat on for a few paragraphs.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. No. Wait. It is beginning to look a lot like a perfect Christmas. …
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Mark McGee
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11/26/22
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While looking through my archives at some older columns, I came across one that was written and printed in the Times-Gazette before Thanksgiving of 2012.
I had forgotten about the events I told in …
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Doug
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11/19/22
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I hate the phrase “new normal” but that is what my mother and I are adjusting to after the death of my father last week.
A lot goes through your mind in the days after the …
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Mark McGee
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11/19/22
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Inside the front cover of most of my Bibles I have written this phrase: God Speaks, I Need To Listen!
Baptized as an infant…raised in church…raised in a Christian …
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Doug Dezotell
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11/12/22
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