Miss Lucille’s Café within the Miss Lucille’s Marketplace offers a home-style dining experience with a modern twist. With such mouthwatering menu items like Fannie’s chicken salad sandwich and Sadie Mae’s grilled cheese, the café offers light lunch plates that are filling and delicious. 

“Clutter is not just physical stuff.

After a weekend of rain and storms, this week will feature pesky shower chances just about every day.

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” – Epictetus

Two different weather systems over the past 10 days have brought heavy rain to Middle Tennessee and flooding to some areas. 

Mo Mo Korean Barbecue is one of the best-kept secrets on Fort Campbell Boulevard. It had been a long time since I had enjoyed some authentic Korean cuisine. 

“Snake’s poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means death.” — Rumi

This is probably going to be the week that the weather pattern begins to transition to more of what we would expect at this time of year. 

“To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore, is to strive and persevere and never give up.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

If we can't get a white Christmas, I guess the next best thing would be partly sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s. That's what we will get this year. 

“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” — Shirley Temple

This week is going to be divided up into three weather segments. 

The Gingham Café is a pretty and intimate eatery just off of Madison Street. The fare consists of delectable homemade soups, sandwiches and quiches that offer the patron a wide variety of full-flavored menu options. 

Now is the time when many homes will be adorned with holiday plants including cactus, amaryllis and poinsettias. I think that every home that decorates for Christmas should have at least one poinsettia, the No. 1-selling potted plant in the world.

It truly is a merry and bright time of year. For me, it’s not the twinkling lights that make it special but the spirit of giving. 

“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.” — Aesop

The big news in our weather this week is a return of arctic air to Tennessee. 

To the Editor:

“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?” ― Salvador Dalí

After our weather gets off to a decent start for the beginning of the week, an unsettled pattern is shaping up beginning Dec. 6, with chances of rain every day through Dec. 10.  

Thousands of Tennesseans are in a mental health care gap – which means they have barriers such as cost and coverage to access services they want and need. I have dedicated 30 years to provide mental health services and alcohol and substance use treatment, and I have seen the negative impacts…

I’m a country boy. I grew up in the country. I lived most of my life in the country. I hope to die and be buried out in the country.

“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A front moving through the area should bring scattered showers Tuesday but the temperatures will be mild with highs in the low 60s. 

“Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.” — Brené Brown