Chrissie’s Blog
Let’s Get Physical
My gastric bypass surgery was almost two years ago. It feels much longer than that. I’ve done well. I’ve kept the weight off, for the most part, and was holding pretty steady through this past winter. Which wasn’t where my bariatric surgeon wanted me to be. This has...
Getting Things in Order
Last August at Table Rock, a few of us lamented about wanting to take a chapbook class, but there were none to be found. Sue Dunlap Weaver came back, “What if I could talk Connie Green into doing one at her house in Lenoir City for about 10-12 of us?” We were giddy...
Write It Down
It has been a while since I’ve written about my writing activities, so I’ll back up a little to include the past couple of months. At the end of March, I went to Denton’s for a week (March 20-27) to get some writing done. I came away with four poems, a couple of other...
80s Cruise 2025
Another 80s Cruise has come and gone. And it went way too fast, of course. In most ways. Tragedy struck early. Our first show in Studio B on Sunday night was Faster Pussycat, a band I knew only one song by, which is not uncommon for some of the harder rock/metal...
Take It to the Limit
Unlike any concert experience I've ever had! Almost like a 3-D movie-scape that 17,600 people have just been dropped into, the immersive experience "takes you" into whatever content has been created for the songs being performed. It’s like we’re all in every video...
Wild, Wild West
On Sunday, April, 13, we traveled to Grand Canyon West. Our first stop was Joshua Tree Forest in Arizona, just past Dolan Springs, AZ. I'm familiar with the Joshua Tree only because that's the name of the immensely popular U2 album that solidified their chart-topping...