A bit confused...

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

• If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."


• Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.


• If your name is Barack you're a radical, …

Owings Pioneer Days 2008

This morning I was feeling much, much better than I had the past couple of days, so I decided to head down to Owings for their Pioneer Days. I had gone last year and really enjoyed myself, and really didn't want to miss this year's event. It was enjoyable again this …

When was the last time...

...you had a roll of film developed?

For me it's probably last winter.

Photo of the Month

Sciway.net (South Carolina Information Highway) is an outstanding website that has information or links to information to just about anything you would want to know about South Carolina.

Director or Coordinator?

Yesterday the central office staff met to go over our goals for the upcoming school year. Our superintendent talked with us about our roles as directors of our various departments. The emphasis this year is on "customer service" and on how we can play a supporting …

The End of the World As We Know It

I got this e-mail forwarded from Laura.

Children's Graveyard - Followup and History

In my previous post I mentioned that I wasn't able to find much information on Duncan Chapel online.

The Children's Graveyard

Eric from "A Day's Drive from Greenville" recently wrote about a trip he took to the "Children's Graveyard" near Furman University. His descriptions and photos made me want to take a visit for myself, so today I set off in search of this supposedly haunted location.

I …

Dining Disasters

Disaster #1

...Well, not really a disaster, but a lapse in judgement.

Flowgram and BeFunky

I came across a couple of interesting web discoveries this week.

A Night at the Fair

Since it's Labor Day Weekend, the Upper South Carolina Fair must be in town. I decided to wait until Sunday evening to make a visit so I could get pictures of the lights and possibly some long exposure shots.

As I drove over to the fairgrounds it started dumping rain. …

Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

....oh, SARAH Palin. (sorry)

Great-Great Grandparent Encounters

I spent Sunday afternoon visiting my folks in Gray Court.

In Search of Phantom Stairs

I've always been fascinated by odd bits of masonry - remnants of long past days. Nothing so grandiose as the Sheldon Church ruins near Beaufort, or the Tanglewood Mansion columns in Seneca, these bits can be just a piece of a stone wall, a bit of a column that …

For Want of a Nail...

The first week of school, and I've been flumoxed by small things.

School Enrollment Increases

Each year we take student counts on days 1, 2, 3, and 10 of the school year.

Unclear on the Concept

Today I attended a workshop in Columbia on the state's new IP video retrieval system.

What I Did on My Summer Vacation

Today is the first day of school for our students.

Wait, Wait, the Conclusion

Now that the episode has aired, I feel safe letting you know that I did, in fact, win Carl Kassell's voice in my answering machine. I was asked a question about John Edward's affair which I was able to answer without problem. The second question was about e-mails …

Middleton Inn

Laura said she really needed a weekend away before school got ramped up.