The holiday season was productive for me as I recently completed the first draft of a new book I have been working on since summer 2019. Wit...

 

  A visit to downtown Charleston last week resulted in a memorable bird encounter.  I had seen a story and a few photographs in the Post and...

It’s very early Christmas morning and all through the house…and outside…it is very quiet, as it should be.  Soon the family will be up and t...

  Since Hooded Mergansers came to my backyard pond a week ago I’ve been checking on them a few times a day. They are still here and the “Hoo...

  A favorite migratory bird has been in my (the golf course actually owns it) backyard pond for almost a week now. These are Hooded Merganse...

The prominent Murdaugh family of Hampton, S.C. has been in local then national news for a while now. But it’s for all the wrong reasons: mys...

This being the last week of classes at South Carolina State University I treated myself to my favorite lunch place in Orangeburg.  That wou...

Earlier in November a group of South Carolina State University students and I had a unique opportunity to go inside the old Orangeburg bowli...

I was not planning to try to see the latest lunar eclipse- especially when the best viewing time is in the middle of the night. But this mor...