Lucky me and my last Barbie
I can’t recall my first Barbie. I can my last.
I stopped playing with Barbie’s around 10 or 11....
Three weeks exploring Africa leaves me ready for more
“Traveling — it leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller.”
Medival Moroccan scholar and author Ibn Battuta...
These days, they’re not as lazy but much more crazy
Songs get stuck in my head from time to time. With the weather we’ve had lately, it’s been Nat King Cole singing...
I went to go see Shohei play, and boy did he put on a...
Thursday afternoon concluded a quick baseball trip with my dad, and we did not leave unhappy, to say the least.
Angelkeep Journals: Water strider, Angelkeep stands corrected
For years, probably at least 23, Angelpond’s long-legged critters scampered across the surface of the water like squirrels did on the ice...
10 years have passed in a blink of an eye
I still remember when I registered my first vehicle here, earning the “90” on my license plate. I joked that this community...
A painted turtle and Angelkeep paintings
Paintings adorned the interior walls of nearly every room at Angelkeep. Bluffton’s historical commercial artist and watercolorist, Harry Lindstrand, was well represented...
It wasn’t all just about the flood 20 years ago
Thumbing through 20-year-old copies of the News-Banner the past few weeks, researching the “Great Flood of 2003” for our series of articles,...
Angelkeep Journals: The amazing ‘water fishing spider’
Not in a million years would anyone at Angelkeep have guessed Angelpond held spiders that swam underwater without scuba gear, outmaneuvered and...
State politics increasingly fought in courtrooms
To cover government and politics these days you almost need a law degree. That’s because virtually every controversial issue ends up in...