Maybe you remember, or at recall seeing, the famous photograph of President Harry Truman holding a copy of the Chicago Tribune headlined “Dewey Defeats Truman,” except Truman defeated …

Last week I celebrated another birthday. My twenty second, twenty first birthday, woo hoo! We piggy backed having to attend a midweek wedding in Lake Wales, Florida with a bit of a couples get away …

Over the course of a hundred years, I’ve accumulated quite a collection of Halloween crapola. It started innocent enough with glass blown pumpkins, but through the years pumpkin people, …

As daylight saving time ends on November 2, 2026, millions of Americans will set their clocks back one hour, gaining a bit of extra sleep but also facing a shift in their daily rhythms. While this …

As I mentioned last month in this forum, the House GOP caucus convened for our annual legislative planning retreat to discuss the upcoming legislative session and our shared values of limited …

I recently took a peaceful hiking trip through the hills of Southern Ohio. All the leaves were changing colors, the air had that crisp feeling. Fall has a way of reminding us that change can be …

Pete the Dog is my French Bulldog. He’s a hot mess. He looks like something a kindergartner drew during indoor recess. He’s got these giant eyeballs — one of which tends to wander …

We are getting close to a very special time of the year for me, even though the tale itself will be 45 years “old” soon. It involves a move to another location, a long, long time ago …

The past few weeks have been filled with airline flights, rental cars and people watching as I rearranged my plans for families and dear friends going through difficult times. Nothing on my …

The morning isn’t the same without you. I wake and anticipate your perky warm company. I couldn’t start my day without you. You brighten my mood, and spark my energy. I can’t wait …

By the time Anne Pitts hung up her nurse’s cap for good, folks around Bluffton, Hilton Head, and Daufuskie swore they’d never meet another quite like her. And truth be told, they were …

I don’t know about you, but more and more I have found that when I layout a game plan for a day of fishing it doesn’t always go the way I planned. For example, just last week I had my …

In the Gospel of Luke, chapter 15 verses 3–7, Jesus tells the well-known Parable of the Lost Sheep—a story simple in form but profound in meaning. It begins with a shepherd who has a …

When two atoms collide something cosmically extraordinary happens. At the smallest scale matter and energy meet creating a flash and raw power is released. Physicists built the Large Hadron …

I ended my last column, on the evening of my fifth day, gathered on a raised deck at Tarangire Simba Lodge in Tanzania, where a tree grew right through the floorboards - nature and architecture …

You are eating the wrong kind of peanut butter, sayeth daughter Tamela, guru of all things digestible. You need to eat organic peanut butter. That stuff you’re eating is homogenized, and it has …

Chiggers. The word makes me laugh. I first learned about these itchy demons when I moved to Bluffton. If you’re unfamiliar, they are like a mosquito’s evil little brother - smaller, …

Dear Reader, I laughed out loud at your comparison—but only because I know exactly what you mean. You step outside for a peaceful walk or try to back out of your driveway, and here comes …

There were four of us who went to Tybee that summer day in 1948. We were tired of the river, wanted the beach, the ocean, something different from what we had in Bluffton. There was Becky from …

When you have been blessed to have reached a certain age there are multiple moments and incidents frozen in your memory. Your first day of school, holding your new baby sister for the first time, …