I guess I’ve always known how much I appreciate my grandmother Ethel, but it’s taken far too long for me to give her the credit due. There is a double…
Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated the 34th president on January 20, 1953. I was eleven and in the fifth grade. My school in Greer, SC, was 6 or 7 blocks…
We lived in Highlands, NC, in the late eighties in a wonderful mountain home on three acres. Our yard backed up to the Nantahala National Forest. Ours was a small…
My dad was a good man, but he perfected the art of procrastination, he just could not carry projects to completion. In the south you can say something not so…
If you have engaged in conversation with me you may recall it did not take long before I brought up Highlands, NC. I was fortunate to have lived in Highlands…
Every region of the country has strong thunderstorms. The Piedmont of South Carolina where I grew up is no exception. The summers are hot, so the afternoon storms roll in…
Over the years I have spent as much time as possible enjoying the forests, streams and lakes found in the South Carolina Piedmont, Northeastern Florida, the mountains of Western North…
Today on my walk, for some reason I started thinking about my early childhood wandering, and then, how different my wandering is today. About the time I turned 7, in…
It is really hard to find anything positive about this pandemic. Now that I look back over the past few months, I have found a bright spot. When the “stay…
