A Letter From the President In the mid twenty-aughts, approximately 2006, I was invited to an open mic in downtown Charleston that...

A Letter From the President When I got my first job out of college and my own apartment, I fulfilled a childhood dream and bought an ant...

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” - Terry Pratchett Let me tell you about Peter Burke: I don’t...

A Letter from the President Since they arrived by truck, I have spent a good deal of time in line at the Post Office mailing out signed...

A Letter from the President It never had to be like this. Next week, I will be celebrating my second birthday during COVID times: limited...

A Letter from the President There were times when it seemed like I would never be able to announce this, but my book about the history of...

A Letter from the President In the last years of her life, my maternal grandmother’s mind was rearranging her memories before freeing...

(I admit that I chose this heading for its clickbait qualities) Because buildings last longer than people do, I live in a city of ghosts....

(or a village will do in a pinch) In my last “Letter from the President,” I begged you to take a survey for the greater future of the...

(put on your rubber gloves, we're going to scrub some grout!) Not that long ago, I was listening to an interesting story on NPR that...

Walk a Mile in Someone's Shoes (for 100 years) My mother was a firm believer that her children’s immortal souls would be in jeopardy if...

Happy Old Year! ...what? I swear, this month was going to be BIG! Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, it will be a big month done in a small...

have been having a lot of dreams lately. They have not been that great. They spring from anxiety. But I have noticed a trend: In my dreams

The Presidents of the United States of the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Huh? I do not need to tell you that election day is coming...

The Charleston Writers' Group: 98 years of le mot juste Photos of Writers' Group moderators: Clelia P. McGowan: 1922-1924, Arabella...

“The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.” Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the...