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    Today\'s Events
    • Rick Rushing and the Blues Strangers at Mudpie Restaurant, 6:30pm
    • Vanna, Armor for Broken, Show the Fight, EWAP, FTF, Night After Dark at Warehouse Row, 7pm
    • Pat Godwin at The Comedy Catch, 8pm
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • "Jellies: The Living Art" Exhibition at Hunter Museum of American Art, 10am
    • Shamrock City! Rock City's 3rd Annual Irish Festival at Rock City Gardens, 11am
    • "Earth" at Warehouse Row, 12pm
    • “Explorations in Steel” by Julie Clark at In Town Gallery, 11am
    • Two Man Gentleman Band, Front Porch Regulars at JJ's Bohemia, 10pm
    • "Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • American Institute of Floral Designers Southern Conference at Chattanooga Convention Center
    • "Talk Portraiture" Exhibition at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • "Peter Pan" at Tivoli Theatre
    • Unspoken Triumph, Undying Darkness, Goatwhore, Enfold Darkness at Club Fathom, 7pm

    Tomorrow\'s Events
    • "Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • "Talk Portraiture" Exhibition at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” at Creative Discovery Museum, 10am
    • “Explorations in Steel” by Julie Clark at In Town Gallery, 11am
    • "Speak Easy" Spoken word and poetry at Mudpie Restaurant, 8pm
    • "Jellies: The Living Art" Exhibition at Hunter Museum of American Art, 10am
    • "Earth" at Warehouse Row, 12pm
    • "Peter Pan" at Tivoli Theatre
    • Wild Ocean in 3D at IMAX 3D Theater

    Later Events
    • "Earth" at Warehouse Row, 12pm
    • "Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • On Point Annual Fundraising Banquet at Chattanooga Convention Center
    • Creative Discovery Museum’s Exhibit “Good For You” at Creative Discovery Museum, 10am
    • Wild Ocean in 3D at IMAX 3D Theater
    • MR. BASKETBALL ROAST at Chattanooga Convention Center, 6pm
    • “Explorations in Steel” by Julie Clark at In Town Gallery, 11am
    • "Talk Portraiture" Exhibition at Shuptrine Fine Art Group
    • Univox at JJ's Bohemia, 10pm
    • "Twenty Original American Etchings" at Hunter Museum of American Art
    • Troy Underwood at Mudpie Restaurant, 6:30pm
    • "Peter Pan" at Tivoli Theatre
    • "Jellies: The Living Art" Exhibition at Hunter Museum of American Art, 10am
    • Classic Literature Book Club: "Emma" at Rock Point Books, 6pm

    Shrink Rap – Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously

    I’m on the threshold of turning the Big Five-Oh.  Yes, 50, and it happens later this month.  So I don’t know if the story I’m about to share with you is a result of my hitting the mid-century point (Ouch…it hurt to put it that way.  That’s gonna leave a mark), or if this happens to people at all ages.

    Since I purchased my “smart phone” some months back, I’ve had a bit of a love-hate relationship with it.  I love the features, the impressive memory, the Bluetooth, and how it keeps on ticking despite being dropped onto hard surfaces, ejecting its little battery clear across the driveway in the process.

    What puzzles me about it is that it sometimes performs functions without my knowledge or direction, or so it seems, anyway.  Occasionally I look down to find that I’m on the Internet.  What?  How long have THOSE charges been incurring?  Or I see that it’s calling voicemail for me.  Thanks, but—I didn’t request that.  Did I?

    I keep it handy all day long, alert for calls and messages, and check it first thing in more »



    Shrink Rap – Doing the Right Thing

    I always bristle a bit at this kind of phrase: Do the right thing.  It is totally subjective and inevitably laced with judgment.  Who is more »


    Shrink Rap – The Shortest Month

    I have a very good friend in Los Angeles, Owen, who is African American.  He has about the best sense of humor of anyone I more »


    Shrink Rap – After The Chocolate Dust Has Settled

    So another Valentine’s Day has come and gone, and all that’s left in the well-mauled box of chocolates are those weird florescent-filled, funny-tasting ones nobody more »


    Shrink Rap – Our Friends, Our Mirrors

    Dear Dr. Rick,
    I love your column and gain a lot of insight from it.  I feel I’m becoming a more conscious person, in little ways more »


    Shrink Rap: It’s Good to Laugh—Because Then You Live Longer

    I was in the grocery store the other afternoon, chatting with the check-out gal and the elderly man who bags the groceries.  He’s always struck more »


    Shrink Rap: A Positive Attitude and a New Wellness Center

    We have kicked off the year with discussions about wellness—trusting our “internal healer” and putting ourselves in the driver’s seat for our psychological and physical more »


    Shrink Rap – The Four Humors

    Starting at the time of Hippocrates, which is to say around 450 BC, until the early 19th century, the most commonly held view of human more »


    Shrink Rap: On a Word and a Prayer

    Usually, when someone discusses wellness, the topic will include physical fitness and the importance of a commitment to exercise.  Or perhaps nutrition and learning to more »


    Shrink Rap: The Road to Wholeness

    What is the most effective “treatment” for healthy self-esteem?  For physical and spiritual well-being? For living in the present? For a life of bliss?

    Would that more »


    Shrink Rap: Top Ten (Well, Top 20) from 2009

    As I was thinking of “Top Ten” lists, I began to ponder the kinds of topics I want to share with you in the New more »


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