Stephen Yeargin

This afternoon I finally set foot in the Municipal Auditorium, something I had managed to avoid doing in the entire time I have lived in middle Tennessee. The Bridgestone Arena (and its half dozen or so other names) opened three years before I got to Nashville in 1999, so every downtown sporting event or concert [...]

My head hurts from as much eye-rolling as I have done in the last few days, thanks in large part to the media circus around our gubernatorial race. One gentleman with three teeth from Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee is enjoying his stint with fame thanks in part to a segment aired on local television. He had a [...]

It is tough to believe that we are two thirds of the way through 2010, but here it is — August. It is not the coming school year that I am most anticipating (not quite at a spot where I can start looking into graduate-level work), but rather the re-opening of a food court near [...]

You know it is hot outside when, even at midnight, the bank clock thermometers still read 90 degrees plus. We were driving through downtown Nashville after Samantha returned from hanging out with a few of her friends from the political realm. I have enjoyed hearing her stories, but the thought of sitting outside in the [...]

In a few short weeks, my morning commute will become about ten minutes longer thanks to the return of students at the two school zones I pass through. The first summer in the new decade has been a hectic and challenging one professionally, but remarkably slow in terms of what all has changed since the [...]

I am a big fan of long weekends, particularly when the weather is nice as it has been for the last few days. We went to lunch with my 14-month old cousin on Saturday, apparently reinforcing some rumor that “Stephen is good with kids” or something like that. He made quite a game of the [...]

Today marks the first day of summer, although the weather we have been having for the last month would beg to differ. If the official start of seasons were determined by average temperatures rather than dates on a calendar, we have been in “summer” for quite some time. Sunday we were out in the heat [...]

So I have now logged five races in six months, this time at the Music Fest Road Race. I am still hunting for my first sub-40-minute finish in 5Ks this year, but I will take a 40:58 as hot as it was on the course today. As Samantha is quick to remind me, I have [...]

Earlier today I was sitting in a coffee shop in midtown Memphis, waiting on two Eggos and a fruit plate. The place was an eclectic mix of everything you expect to see in a non-corporate coffee shop, complete with the colorful characters that frequent such establishments. I cannot pass judgment, as I am one of [...]

A week or two ago, I was asked to do a quick blog post on my thoughts from participating in last year’s Ellie’s Run for Africa. I was happy to do it, and had already planned to run in this year’s event. Because I work for one of the sponsors now, several of my co-workers [...]