Army Lunches

I was a bit slow in the accepting that Santa was not some fella in a cool sleigh with unusual reindeer for power. As a matter of fact, I...

Speck Rowe was Allen and Wills grandfather. He was Pater Familias, the chief sage of not only the Rowe house that stood on the corner of...

Matt and I had many names for Mama that we used casually and usually in jest. Atlas was one, for she loved nothing more than carrying the...

My older brother Wallace and his wife Tori got married in summer of 1985, and set up housekeeping first in Pendleton, SC then on Saluda...

Mert gripped the branch a bit tighter and turned towards Croakes and said “Did I ever tell you about the time I flew up past the end of...

I have accepted it. Shine, she is so good God called her home just so He could enjoy her love and reward her for not only being the...

Dwight, Mitchell and myself drove down to Earle, SC in the Ford Escort station wagon that served as the company vehicle for WBSC, the...

I was recently in the drive through at Hardee’s and noticed a concrete curb that had obviously absorbed many impacts as evidenced by the...

Fall brought a colorful reminder every year that the task of raking the leaves shed by the two massive Oaks and the Scalybark Hickory...

I recently went to Bennettsville to make a low, fast pass of observation and to attend to some business at the Marlboro County...

Matt was probably seven years old, and I was nine when we decided to dig the hole underneath the Chestnut tree off the corner of the...

I was laying down a grooving bass line for a home recording when I saw him pull in the driveway with the car he bought “for Mama”…a 1988...

I loved to spend the night over at a friend’s house as a kid, and I also loved having a friend stay overnight as the anticipation of the...

The Johnsons held a huge family reunion every year down at Dr. Jim Danner's lakeside retreat at Scarborough's Landing on the Potato Creek...

Sharon Sandifer Johnson had a special manner in how she dealt with situations that would arise in the course of raising three rowdy boys....

Every year, the Pee Dee Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America held an Exposition on the Florence Fairgrounds that were adjacent to...

Jackie Johnson (JB or "Jackie Boy") was a pretty awesome man and I could only wish to be one fifth the man he was! I had watched in...

One of our favorite pastimes was to go shooting, and we spent a lot of time pursuing that activity. Daddy, Wallace, Matt and myself would...

I copied this little story by William Price Fox that piqued my interest in Max Gergel and the Columbia Organic Chemical Company he owned...

It was a bright, sunny Saturday in the early summer of 1977 when Rev Paul Smith loaded up the five of us boys in the UMC confirmation...