by Leslie Sholly | Jul 15, 2018 | Graveyards, homeschooling, Knoxville, Parenting, Vacations
Y’all, it is HOT. And our access to a swimming pool is gone. It is hard to want to leave the air conditioning to have summer adventures, but we managed three days of fun this week. I couldn’t get it together till Wednesday, when we had to leave the house...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 11, 2017 | Graveyards, Knoxville, Uncategorized
Pleasant Forest Cemetery is a hard one to miss. It’s enormous, for one thing, and it’s on a well-traveled road. I’ve driven by it many times and it’s been on my list to visit for awhile. Occasionally my graveyard trips are serendipitous and...
by Leslie Sholly | Mar 19, 2017 | family, The South, Uncategorized, Vacations
We didn’t go anywhere for Spring Break this year, except to the zoo. Today’s planned trip to Dollywood was canceled due to illness. So I got to feeling nostalgic about last year’s Spring Break trip, which I had never gotten around to sharing here....
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 7, 2016 | Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Politics, Uncategorized
On the eve of the 2012 Presidential Election, I put up a post about how I would be voting, and why. By now, if you’ve been keeping up, you know whom I will be voting for tomorrow. And I’ve even explained how I approached making this decision, as a...
by Leslie Sholly | Sep 16, 2016 | family, Knoxville, sponsored, us family guide
As y’all know by now, I’m a US Family Guide blogger, which means occasionally I share offers for admission to attractions with you, then visit the attractions and honestly review them in this space. In return, I get free tickets for me and my family....