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If you like what you read, check out my new prose section, with a sampling of a few things I've written over the years, but that don't really fit here in the blog. Hope you enjoy.

Forgive me if I anthropomorphize my car, but for 12 years Oscar has been a constant companion. We have history, you see. Like the time we...

While firmly entrenched in The Bible Belt, the house I bought this past spring as a fixer-upper is two blocks from a football stadium,...

Happiness is your oldest and closest friends, who you haven’t seen in more than a year, driving down from West Virginia to spend some...

Pop had a 1975 Ford F-150 when we were growing up, pea green and covered in rust and Bondo. It had no air conditioning. If I close my...

It's 69 degrees outside, and sunny. I'd planned on cutting back on coffee, but here I remain, in my reading chair, sipping on a hot cup...

Inexplicably woke up at 4 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep. Went for a morning walk before the sun came up. Climbed in the bed of a...

Bright autumn morning, with a chill. Sweet smell of decaying yellow and red leaves through the open window where my arm rests. Trees blur...

What you are seeing is a campsite along the Chatooga River, in the Sumter National Forest, and part of the Ellicott Wilderness Area here...

My dog, Whittaker, has given up trying to hop up on the bed with me, and lies snoring on the carpet. It's just past 1 a.m., the dark...

At the last eye exam, the optometrist, who I suspect is a few years my junior, noted that I'd get by for one more year - two, tops -...