On Happiness & The Holidays
It was the morning after Thanksgiving, and we were driving to the Snowman Lot on Lady’s Island to...
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OPINION
Find My Friend
Recently I was FaceTiming with my young grandson and told him I had to go because I was meeting...
Read MoreA Holiday Invitation
I confess, I was not super excited when Donna Sheetz flagged me down between choir practice and...
Read MoreDriven to Distraction
A nice woman with Americans for Prosperity knocked on my door the other day and asked me to take...
Read MoreChildhood Questions
As children, my wife Doris and I had different kinds of things on our minds and asked different...
Read MoreInterview with the Tin Man
I’ve known Fleetwood Covington for a long time. He swears we met sometime in the ‘80s, but I...
Read MoreHer Final Bow
Marlena Smalls arrives for our interview wearing a purple tee-shirt that reads “Roth High School...
Read MoreOn Knowing Better
My college friend Tommy, a portrait artist, often does small pieces he calls “studies” before...
Read MoreTop Two Travel Tips
I’m not a world traveler by any means, but I do love a travel-tip list. I’ll leave a comprehensive...
Read MoreCoffee Talk
The following is loosely based on a conversation between my husband and me in our kitchen one...
Read MoreThe World in a Window Box
To say Mother Nature’s been temperamental this summer would be an understatement. Unprecedented...
Read MoreSo, This is About the Incredible Way We Speak, Right?
Lately, for reasons that are clearly self-serving, I’ve come to believe that persons over age 65...
Read MoreStill 80s After All These Years
I’m writing earlier than usual this week, trying to get work off my plate before taking myself on...
Read MoreGrowing Up Barbie
Last Sunday, my husband and I drove to Bluffton to take part in the great American cinematic event...
Read MoreMimi Takes to the Bed
“I’m taking to the bed,” I whisper over the phone to my mother, after spending two weeks with the...
Read MoreSermon by Johnny Cash
Somebody sent me a very kind email a couple of weeks ago, thanking me for the occasional mention...
Read MoreObservations from a Trip to the Left Coast
“By whom or by what had I been impelled to disrupt the normal course of my existence?” asked...
Read MoreWatching “1883” in 2023
When it comes to keeping up with pop culture, my husband and I are thoroughly lame. We’re...
Read MoreHappy Fourth?
A dispatch from the Divided States of America Summer is not my favorite writing season....
Read MoreClosing Gate Panic
Leave it to the Germans to capture a whole thing about life transitions in one word. The idea of...
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