Category: Rants & Raves

Have you seen the latest issue of The New Yorker? It’s been years since I subscribed, but the...

I’m writing from the Victoria Hotel in Budapest, Hungary, midway through a family travel...

Hot Take: (noun.) A piece of commentary, typically produced quickly in response to a recent event,...

New York photographer Robert Kalman and his wife Linda have been on the road for weeks now. It’s...

My daughter, a rising college junior, calls me every day from Clemson. Sometimes more than once....

As an “opinion columnist,” I have always known – deep down – that what I do on this page is a...

I’m stuck in traffic on Carteret Street, just past Bellamy Curve, near the university. We haven’t...

It was the first Sunday of Lent, and the revelations came fast and furious. It started with Sunday...

The Beaufort International Film Festival turns Sweet Sixteen next week, and – God willing and the...

Last week I was at Hearth, devouring an excellent wood fired pizza (‘The Meat’) while debriefing...

Picture this. You’re aimlessly scrolling down your Facebook feed, when suddenly the most dazzling...

January 1st, 2022. It’s New Year’s Day and time to write another column. I’ve been conjuring up a...

What a year in this American life. Those who thought 2020 couldn’t be topped in terms of tension,...

I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve experienced too much sadness and loss this holiday season. The...

Several years ago, in a column I can’t seem to find now, I wrote a sentence that my sister deemed...

As we barrel toward Thanksgiving, then on to the end of another very strange year, I’ve got some...

Do you dream of technology? I mean literally. When you close your eyes at night, do you drift off...

Mike Jones’ new novel explores 60-year-old Beaufort murder mystery Mike Jones was 16 years old, a...

I don’t know about y’all, but more and more these days, I feel crushed by the weight of our...