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There was no Carowinds, no Six Flags, and even Disneyland was a “Wish Upon a Star” away. There was, however, in the middle of nowhere,...

Now I don’t want to imply that success is dumb luck…okay, maybe mine has been but you probably earned your unique status. Notice that I...

“Stop looking at birds and airplanes and concentrate on golf.” I have heard that more times than I care to remember from my beleaguered...

Let me admit to being a thief. I would claim to be borrowing but I am never going to give back the words and ideas I took from all that...

In the late 1960’s I was a weekend warrior. Several factors had led me to become a citizen soldier in the South Carolina National Guard....

I thought I was ready. It was the fall of 1958 and I was sitting on the front steps of our house on Gregg Street wearing my freshly...

In the early sixties, when I was sneaking into my teens, there were only a few places to go for adventures beyond our little burg. Fort...

For summer tourists the beach is a delightful escape to the sun and sea…a place to let the waves wash away troubles while your toes sink...

Come on now. You have wished on stars and lucky pennies and chicken bones. It doesn’t matter how skeptical you are, now and then we all...

Maybe it’s three weeks of underwhelming winter mix, Or maybe it’s a week of stuffy head, or maybe it’s my advanced age but you might find...

Let’s talk about those folks who, for better or worse, leave their indelible marks on our behavior…Relatives. I’m not talking about...

January first is, after all, just a day. We fill it with our highest expectations and with our brightest hopes. We anticipate its coming...

After the buying, worrying, and scurrying about…after the Black Fridays and the Cyber Mondays…after the hubbub that the holidays bring,...

With a turkey thawing in the refrigerator along with enough side dishes to feed the dozens more people than were coming to dinner, we...

There’s an old joke about a lady who is standing over the freezer case full of Butterball turkeys with a scowl on her face. She snags a...

There’s a bench at the top of Main Street in front of the Fort Mill Barbershop. It may look like those ordinary wrought-iron benches...

At thirteen I was hard to love. I was caught in that “coming-of-age” certainty that parents were too old and stuffy to understand me and...

Sometimes I get stuck. I have spent five hours in the last two days pounding keys and getting nothing that would interest you, the...

My hometown lost two heroes this week, Louise Pettus, a well-known historian and Ann Close, a philanthropist and adventurer. Their...