Mark Kennedy
Times Free Press
Chattanooga, TN, United States
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Past articles by Mark:
Kennedy: The case of the imperfect vase
When our 16-year-old son is feeling down, you can tell immediately. → Read More
Kennedy: UTC women to start College Cleaners housekeeping service
Brooke McFarlin, 18, and Alayna Grover, 19, are unlikely business partners. → Read More
Kennedy: Have a beloved garment that’s ripped or torn? Sewanee artist has a solution
A few years ago, Sewanee, Tennessee, artist Jessica Wohl had an idea for an art exhibit. → Read More
East Brainerd man turns heads with adorable fire truck that speaks Japanese
Commercial airline pilot Barry Twitchell told his wife and daughter in October he was going to Seattle to retrieve a vehicle he purchased online. → Read More
Chattanooga’s Cherie Martinez, a retired United Airlines pilot reflects on life and loss
Cherie Martinez, a retired United Airlines pilot, turned 65 (the mandatory retirement age) in March 2020, just as COVID-19 hit the United States. The virus spread so quickly she had to cancel her retirement party. → Read More
Opinion: Who remembers Minnie Pearl’s Chicken and Shakey’s Pizza?
Our kids grew up on fast food, although there is no evidence it stunted their growth. → Read More
Opinion: Negotiating traffic with a 15-year-old behind the wheel
At some point, our 15-year-old son became confident he could drive in city traffic. → Read More
Chasing a $10 lunch: UTC students review reasonably priced lunches in Chattanooga
You've probably heard the saying: There's no free lunch. → Read More
Chattanooga's Best Places to Work 2022: Text Request
* Year established: 2014 * Employees: 30 (global) * Milestones: Like most successful start-ups, Text Request started with founders who identified a need and bottled a solution. As the story goes, co-founders Brian and Jamey Elrod, husband and wife, were eating at a restaurant one day with a fretful young child. When the time came to ask for a check, the server proved elusive. "Why can't you just… → Read More
Opinion: Smiling dogs, dishwasher bliss and other observations from two years of remote work
It was two years ago last month when newsroom employees at the Times Free Press were sent home due to COVID-19. → Read More
Celebrity trick dogs cheer up students after their bus hit a ditch
Chrissy Joy has embraced her last name as a life hack. → Read More
You gotta be joking: Chattanooga has improbably become a Southern base camp for New York comedians
An odd result of the pandemic is that Chattanooga's comedy-club scene got a shot in the arm. A joke jab, so to speak. → Read More
95-year-old Ooltewah resident makes amazing miniature rooms
Wilma Cale, 95, has designed more interiors than Rooms to Go. → Read More
Opinion: When did work anniversaries become the new birthdays?
The internet has invented a new celebration: work anniversaries. → Read More
Opinion: UTC course explores the origins of our fears
Is it really a mean and scary world? Or, do our media-saturated brains make us nervous Nellies? → Read More
Kennedy: East Brainerd couple follows call to share Christmas with children
What began as an East Brainerd family's quiet decision to share their Christmas has become much more. → Read More
Opinion: Ten 1970s Christmas traditions we'd like to forget
I was born in 1958, so my most vivid childhood Christmas memories cluster around the late 1960s and early 1970s - basically, the Nixon years. → Read More
Chattanooga mother-daughter team provides spark for good works
When 16-year-old Chloie Marshall was younger, she had a special desk at home she called her "thinking zone." → Read More
Kennedy: Ooltewah minstry aims to draw men together
When a member of the Ooltewah-based Christian ministry Blueprint for Men saw a woman's online appeal for help getting a wheelchair, he sprang into action. → Read More
Kennedy: East Brainerd man shares birthday with Free Press
Don Tucker of Chattanooga said he waited two years to telephone the newspaper with a story idea. → Read More