Family gets some press
My 8-year-old nephew, inspired by a TV ad for the Great American Bake Sale, a hunger relief benefit program, convinced my sister and the rest of the fam to host one.  Preferring to do my part from my chair, of course I sent out a press release to the local papers, and the Williamson County Review-Appeal picked up the story. You have to register for free to read it, and it's not worth all that, but here's the accompanying picture: clockwise, Becki, Jonathan, Maggie, Mattie, and the precocious Mark. There are more kids, but they don't all fit in one picture...

“I saw a commercial on TV for the bake sale, and I really wanted to do it,” said Mark Wilson, a third-grade student at Walnut Grove Elementary School in Franklin. “I wasn’t sure if my parents would let me and then my dad saw it, too. He said we should do it and I was like, ‘Thank you, Dad, thank you.”The 8-year-old’s enthusiasm, evident as he gasped for enough breaths to tell the story, is bubbling over for the second annual “Great American Bake Sale.” The event, co-sponsored by the national anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength and PARADE magazine, is an effort to fight child hunger in the United States.