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We boomers didn’t always have it easy but we had it simple. Children’s games today are often electronic or electric or have become so...

I walked down Main Street a few days ago, forced myself to pass by the great smells coming from the restaurants and sat on the steps of...

I found out today that there is a Dunkin’ Donut place going up near the Food Lion. Now that’s great and I can’t cast aspersions on...

What’s in a game? Shakespeare didn’t say that but if he had played golf I am sure he would have used a few more colorful words. I once...

In the mid-fifties, the civilized world ended at the pine log fence that stretched across the back yard of our house on Gregg Street....

I grew up on Southern country cooking even though I was a town boy. In the early 1950’s, if you didn’t have a cow or chickens, somebody...

Life, as I know it has changed. During my lifetime great leaps have been made…space flights, computers, and GPS systems. Who would have...

Good judgement is not something that comes at a discount from Costco. You can’t order it and have Amazon deliver it to your door tomorrow...

A few nights ago, Cheryl and I attended a reunion of friends who grew up in Fort Mill and who attended Fort Mill High School when it was...

Sometimes fate takes you by the hand and walks you to a place you had no intention of going. When I start to feel mistreated by life;...

Hear those sleigh bells jingling? Then you need to visit your audiologist. You can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd and your horse can’t...

We celebrate he Fourth of July by buying flags, fireworks, hot dogs and anything red, white, and blue. That’s good, right? Halloween...

This is the South, where men talk about football, cars and weather and women talk about food and about family and to our great shame we...

In the early 1900’s, behind Main Street, in the lot between where the Brewery and the train car now stand, a temporary ramp was built. A...

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a funeral for a friend. As a child, I watched my grandfather’s generation pass away. They were a...

When Mac McAlister took over as principal of Chester High School, I knew things were changing for the good. At the meet and greet for...

When I was ten years old, Mother packed a small suitcase with a week’s worth of clothes and Dad took me to the Bus Station on White...

This episode is about the grown-ups who were my children. The title is from an old nursery rhyme. In this life we all have many roads to...

Once the bacon had individualized and was cooling on a plate, Dad would call for the “Whompies”.

Imagine a time, if you will when there were no fast food stops, no Subway sandwiches, no quarter-pounders with cheese, no stuffed crust...