by Leslie Sholly | Apr 13, 2012 | Knoxville, law, Politics
I’ve got five kids and I’ve been a mother for over 21 years. I find that my “mothering urges” sort of spread themselves over whatever children happen to be around me. When my kids have friends over, I’m all “sweetheart” and...
by Leslie Sholly | May 31, 2011 | death, Knoxville, law, Life Issues, teenagers
A year ago today, a young life ended. Today marks the end of the first year that Henry’s family spent without him, longing for him on every holiday and birthday, at the birth of his sister and death of his great-grandmother, during family milestones and every...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 27, 2010 | Abortion, Babies, Gardening, Reprints
Here’s a column reprint from 2003, which I was inspired to run today by a Facebook post by my friend Amy (you can see her here) whom I have known since first grade. She said: “The difference between a flower and a weed is judgment.” It was a...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 10, 2010 | English Literature, Knoxville, teenagers
 A WONDERFUL FACT to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 5, 2010 | Knoxville
I am extremely upset to hear the latest on the investigation into Henry Granju’s death. I hope that the celebration of his life that his family has planned for tomorrow morning will not be overshadowed by this latest controversy. Their already impossibly...