Report Card
When my daughter sent me my grandson’s first-grade report card, I expected the usual rundown of...
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Category: Voices
Gimme Shelter
Hurricane Helene blew in family from the Upstate of South Carolina and Asheville, North Carolina,...
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Lessons in Lyrics
We were sitting outside on a balmy, summer Beaufort evening, listening to live music with our...
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The Royal Runt
In a week of hard things, one moment stands out: A small, squeaky ladybug toy falls from a box of...
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Ode to the Summertime Tomato Sandwich
Earlier this summer, while paying for my stash of freshly picked strawberries from Barefoot Farms,...
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Curated Comfort
I’m not sure how I fell into such a cozy comfort zone, one cocooned by carefully curated choices,...
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Hurry Up and Wait
I’ve always kept a running list of my character flaws and running late is something I’ve spent...
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Inside Voices
On the first day of kindergarten this year, my grandson’s teacher wanted them to practice various...
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In Praise of Deliberate Mediocrity
Years ago, a women’s magazine asked me to write an article about the joy of taking up a new hobby....
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Christmas Wishes
I’m haunted by a recurring nightmare before Christmas that doesn’t require therapy to interpret....
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Find My Friend
Recently I was FaceTiming with my young grandson and told him I had to go because I was meeting...
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Childhood Questions
As children, my wife Doris and I had different kinds of things on our minds and asked different...
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Top 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...
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So, 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...
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Mimi Takes to the Bed
“I’m taking to the bed,” I whisper over the phone to my mother, after spending two weeks with the...
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Observations 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...
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Closing 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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The Power of Giving
Finding purpose in retirement Most retirement gurus recommend taking your time before jumping into...
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Voodoo Economics, or Why I Became a Historian
By Donald Wright I went to DePauw University because I thought it was cool. In ninth grade a...
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Death Date
My 5-year-old grandson had some big questions while visiting us during his Spring Break. He...
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My Spreadsheet Dog
We moved to the South Carolina Lowcountry because of two dogs: Hank the Handful, a wild...
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
