“One regular Chicken Philly Sub on wheat bread, along with one regular Turkey Breast & Provolone Sub on wheat bread. Sure, we’ll make...

My first-born son’s High School Basketball career was drawing near to the end, and we had just been given the news. During his senior...

I had just finished a tearful embrace with my son’s High School Basketball Coach, who left the locker room first. Immediately following,...

The day started in darkness, before the sun came up. Before I even rolled out of bed, I already had tears in my eyes. It was Senior...

One by one, each of my three sons leaned in and bent over her with tenderness. They clutched her bruised and tattered hand into their...

I had just put the last of my mom’s personal belongings into the white plastic bag the hospital had given to me. A few sticks of gum, one...

We are now almost two weeks into my mother’s hospital stay, and it continues. I will not relist the trauma of everything that has...

This is trauma. The week began like any other week. That is when trauma decided to make its uninvited way into the serenity of my life....

It was the evening of December 25, 2021. The Christmas rush had come and gone as quickly as an Appalachian storm. The floors and couches...

(The “Insights” column will take next week off between Christmas and New Year’s. It will return the first week of 2022. Merry Christmas...

The picture you see here is from Christmas Day 2014. It looks almost picture perfect. It gives the appearance of a perfect, well...

“Silver Bells, Silver Bells, It’s Christmastime in the City” Times on the farm growing up could be very difficult, and oftentimes quite...

My mother played the piano. Most people who know her well, know this. She played the piano and organ in church for many years. She taught...

Every Christmas, when my family is on the way home from an event in town, there is the option to take a left turn into a neighborhood. In...

One of my favorite and most gratifying moments on any stage, anywhere, was Christmas In The City 2016. That was the year I got to sing a...

This picture was taken on Sunday, December 13, 2020. It was taken the last night of Christmas In The City, just moments after the last...

It was known as the Land of the Waxhaws, a region of North and South Carolina ranging from Waxhaw, NC to Lancaster, SC & Buford, SC....

I was raised that way… I was a scholarship collegiate athlete, and it was the first weekend our Coach had required us to stay on campus...

The coffin was set center stage, draped in beautiful flowers, just at the foot of the altar rails of the old Waxhaw United Methodist...

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