About this time every year I blow the dust off my seldom-used checkbook and begrudgingly scrawl my signature in the bottom right corner of a promissory note. 

Retired South Carolina Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal calls that “Toal’s Ladder Principle,” powerful advice for young women she shared as she sat in her back yard last week and reflected on her monumental contributions to the legal field. 

It’s no secret – I love baseball. I especially love my Cubbies, but I simply can’t get enough of America’s Pastime.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lives of Americans in South Carolina and across the country. 

True Southerners take their barbeque seriously - very seriously. 

My sister, Brenda, gave me a cool shirt for Christmas, “Take The Back Roads,” one of those Life Is Good shirts.

The average college debt among student loan borrowers in America is $32,731, according to the Federal Reserve.

As I sat in the lobby of a hotel recently while visiting my daughter and granddaughter in Florida, I had the pleasure of seeing a family reunited. 

Once a religious holiday celebrating the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day has become an annual day for revelry and partying. 

A neighbor suggested I join a community website where people post about restaurant openings and closings, shady repairmen, and snakes.

This coming Saturday night – well, technically Sunday morning - our eyes and minds will be focused on big hands and little hands.

Translating the urban dictionary into a language even old geezers can understand. 

The day was gorgeous, simply gorgeous – sunny skies and temperatures in the mid 70s. The beautiful weather was a most welcome change from the cold and rain that had cast a gloom over the first few weeks of February.

As the events of the past few months have unfolded, I have often found myself wondering what our founders would have made of it all.

And so continues the story of a sweet little southern lady and her pet pig.