Part One in a Series About the 2015 Thousand Year Flood The Thousand Year Flood hit around five years ago. Hard to believe. The first...

Shopping the Classroom Teachers call it shopping the classroom. When one teacher is leaving, other teachers grab stuff they can use....

Part 2 of a Series About Bishopville, SC Native, Major James Capers, Jr.

Photo courtesy of the Lee County Veterans Museum He had no birth certificate. When he needed security clearance to join the Marines, the...

We all want our children in school, and we all want to be safe. Nobody is quite sure how to make that happen, but we do know the roles of...

I give myself the credit and blame for my daughter’s love of The Big Apple. I just dropped her off for a two-week program. I don’t know...

Go ahead. Call me a bad mother. Back in 2019, I watched every single episode of The Bachelorette with my fifteen-year-old daughter. I...

A timeline. Every social studies classroom has one. Mine was up high, where the wall meets the ceiling. The teacher before me, or maybe...

Food and Family Vacations

1990. Summer School, a place nobody ever wants to be. One of my first teaching assignments, and nothing from my education classes...

I love it when the universe gives us what we need. Calbert Johnson and I worked together at The State newspaper years ago. Because...

Robert Gardiner, Jazz Musician

If you grew up Baptist, you know all about sword drills. At my church in Bishopville, it went like this: the Sunday school teacher called...

1993 found me at an alternative school with a mixed bunch of students. Trashy kids and nice kids. Plenty of thugs and more than enough...

Part Nine of the Corona Chronicles Nothing says “welcome to my home” like a table of cleaning products by the front door. Corona has...

It's Not Easy Looking Pretty in a Pandemic - Part 8 of The Corona Chronicles

The Every Single Senior Project - Part Seven of the Corona Chronicles

Women of a certain age are nothing if not efficient. Dating can be time consuming, and women of substance want to use their time wisely....

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As walked into the aerial yoga class, I couldn’t help but wonder, “How the heck did I get myself into this?”I almost left when I realized...