Brooke Humphrey

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[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

@Jerri_M_Green if you were campaigning door to door in West Knoxville today I apologize for not answering my door! I was really enjoying my book and didn’t want to get up 🤣
But I promise I’m voting for you!
If it was not you, then you have a twin in Knoxville!

[Tennessee Athletics @Vol_Sports]

the circle drill never misses ⭕️

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

@AD_DannyWhite I will agree to coach for the rest of the season for only $2M.
We probably won’t reach the playoffs but we’ll win the games we’re supposed to win.

I’m already a UTK employee so it can be a smooth transition.

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

I had driver steal my @UberEats order back in January and @Uber_Support was useless. Recently I commented on a post of someone dealing with a similar situation and Uber Support ended up in my DMs “saying” they would help, but when I asked if it was AI they stopped responding 🤣

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

@Uber_Support You “looked” into in January when this happened and told me nothing could be done. I sent you all the information already.
Either send me my money back or stop wasting my time.

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

@PatMcAfeeShow I don’t normally work on campus on Fridays, but if you’ll be there Friday I’ll give up my remote day just to come say hi to you

[College GameDay @CollegeGameDay]

Time to find out who the real UT is 😏

We'll see you in Knoxville on Saturday for a showdown between Texas and Tennessee! 🔥

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

He’s got more jobs than Marco Rubio.

[BetMGM 🦁 @BetMGM]

Falcons depth chart today:

WR2: Olamide Zaccheaus
RB3: Olamide Zaccheaus
Emergency QB: Olamide Zaccheaus

Atlanta is falling apart before Week 1 starts

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

@paaiinnnn Make it a tax write off so all the billionaires accounts can just say “hey, go to this website and donate X amount before we file your taxes”

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

I am only TWO responses away from my needed goal!
Thank you to all who have participated so far!!

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

TN school counselors: I need your help with my doctoral study on evaluation practices and professional relationships with administrators. See image and survey for eligibility requirements. Please share! Survey link: 
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[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

TN school counselors: I need your help with my doctoral study on evaluation practices and professional relationships with administrators. See image and survey for eligibility requirements. Please share! Survey link: 
https://t.co/s74FNzyzIz

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

@Whitehands__ @Puppieslover He’s not actually a history professor. He’s one of the professors in UT Knoxville’s journalism department and teaches several of their social media courses.

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

Knicks won and my first thought was “Ahhhh I can’t wait for Monday’s episode of @TheDailyShow”

I hope @jonstewart enjoys every moment 🤣🤣

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

As someone who has never followed the NBA, absolutely does not care about the NBA and is ONLY rooting for the Knicks because of my undying love for @jonstewart - the facts are:

When Trump went to the game the Knicks lost.

When Taylor went to the game the Knicks won.

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

I’m a sports girl, but I have never truly followed the NBA. I don’t have a team necessarily support.
But because of my undying love for @jonstewart I’m rooting for the Knicks this year.
But only if he promises to run shirtless through @TheDailyShow studio if they win.

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

Tegan Kuhns gives me Liam Doyle vibes in the BEST way ���🤍🧡🤍

LOVE the energy Kuhns brings to Friday night baseVols

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

Cool. Now demand that he resign from
Congress. Immediately.

[Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries]

Statement on the Serious Accusations against Rep. Eric Swalwell.

[FLAVOR FLAV @FlavorFlav]

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real.

[Brooke Humphrey @MerrittsofLife]

Day 6 of me waiting for @UberEats and @Uber_Support credit my account after my order was stolen by my driver.