Doggy Day

3 min readMar 21, 2024

Woof Woof🦴🐾

Photos: E. Palmer @ Home2 Suites Hilton Hotel 09 N Thompson Ln Bldg A, Murfreesboro, TN 37129

I’ll stroll to the front lobby. At the hotel desk, they have a receptionist. I do two or three days of vacation. I’ll retreat to the second lobby of Home2 Suites Hilton Hotel (always connected to TRU) in Murfreesboro, TN. TRU front lobby has a receptionist and an early breakfast between 6 am 10 am. I love watching television, reading books, checking the newspaper, laptop, or cellphone, or resting. Another second lobby then sits on the couch in the Home2 Suites. My vision got stuck to the television for UNC Tarheels against Duke Blue Devils in Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, NC. Yeah, the Blue Devils lost against the University of North Carolina for the ACC Conference. I was studying the doggy dogs! 😎 (gleamed and thinking about my Blue Devil defeat and the pug’s deeper purple lenses and tongue drooling and bulldog face looking)

As a kid, I loved Johnny Dawkins (PG) and Coach Mike Krzyzewski, “Coach K,” I was glued!

“The Secret Game,” author Scott Ellsworth touched his spirit through the Dixie South. Showed us how Duke University with Coach John McLendon linked North Carolina College for Negroes basketball team.

Author: Scott Ellsworth
The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph
Owned: Eric Palmer ➡️Barnes & Noble Ladue Crossing Shopping Lane Ladue, MO 63124