“Where do you go to get all those stories?”     Throughout my years of employment with the Greenville Piedmont and Greenville News, it never failed. Just about five seconds after someone identified me, here would come the question.     “I like to read your stories, but where do you go to come up with them?”     My simple […]

Just now, one of those ‘memories’ popped up, one that I had absolutely nothing to do with, but I will be the first to admit it is a pretty good one.     The thing started out showing two identical photos of a motorcycle (spelled muddersickle) except, if you look close, the headlight in one seems stronger than […]

 Through the years, grabbing and reporting all sorts of stories, I have now come upon what I consider to be the ultimate con. And they were trying to play it on the Emperor for Life of Route 4, Piedmont. That is, Yours Truly, The Old Yarnspinner.     It was late afternoon on a Friday. The banks were […]

For the life of me, I don’t understand how I have always had a knack for getting myself into these unique positions, and having to try to figure out a way to escape without undue damage.     Looking back, I remembered my first quite scary position in journalism was not my doing, but the work of […]

 I got to go on my first trip to visit Walhalla’s Stumphouse Tunnel when I was about 10 years old. And I got to go because I was an only child.    When you are an only child, there never is a problem for the parent to try and figure out who the culprit is whenever something […]