For close to an hour we drove through horizontal, heavy rain, thunder, lightning, and roads we could barely see. White knuckling it on the way back from Orangeburg. Is there…
I met a couple from Connecticut. He was dressed as something resembling a Scottish Viking (if there is such a person) wearing a helmet, kilt, among other things. His companion…
The Circle in the Square didn’t feel like most Broadway theaters. The stage sat in the middle, the audience wrapped around it, and that night it felt like the old…
58,000. That’s the population of the cities like Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bozeman, Montana. Sanford, Florida. It’s also the number of names carved into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.…
Is there such a thing? Amtrak says so and my wife, myself and my grandson, Josh, age 9 rode from Charleston, SC to NYC round trip in one back in…
The show was outstanding. Every performer on that stage earned the standing ovation they got. I just couldn't give them a proper one. At eighty-seven, with a potful of arthritis,…
Ever strike up a conversation with a perfect stranger and find out you have a connection that seems impossible to be just a coincidence? Happened to me this morning. You…
Happy Birthday, My Love June 12. You know what I was doing three days ago, sixty-two years back? I was in my apartment, right here in Charleston, wearing my loudest…
I always say life is a sitcom. Well, I think I found my set. Lucky for me, there's a coffee shop not far from my apartment here in Charleston. My…
There’s a list I carry in my head. People I’ve seen. People I’ve touched. People I watched on a stage and never forgot. A New York kid who ended up…