My regular workouts at the gym have taken a more serious tone in recent weeks.

Have you ever wondered how it would be if you were unable to enjoy some of the simplest pleasures in life, such as going to a ball game, the movies, even a restaurant or shopping?

Founded in 1902 in Ohio, 4-H has grown to become the nation’s largest youth development organization. It came to South Carolina just six years later in 1908, first to Marlboro County.

What will happen to the United States when its own citizens become its worst enemy? I don’t pretend to know the answer to that question, but I’m afraid we’re about to find out. The nation I grew up in and loved no longer exists.

Jan. 30 is when I started my first “real” job here at the paper in 2013 and the date I closed on my house last year.

After 15 years of dedicated service, Kaye Gibson is retiring and, coincidentally, today is her anniversary date and her last day of work.  

This year’s Super Bowl matchup between the five-time champion New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams — whose only Super Bowl title came 20 years ago when the team was in St. Louis — is full of compelling storylines.

If you are the mother or father of a high school athlete here in South Carolina, this message is primarily for you.

From junior high school until my first year of college, Sunday afternoons in the fall were set aside as father-son time.

My update this month begins with a word of gratitude. As you probably have heard, our family has been struck with tragedy, losing my oldest son and oldest daughter in a period of 18 months. I cannot describe the grief we have experienced over this.

Muscadine grapes are a common find here in the Upstate of South Carolina. They are native to the Southeastern United States, and have been cultivated for more than 400 years. 

The sun was just peeking over the horizon when Dr. Moyle came out of the delivery room and announced that I was the father of a baby girl.

The biggest slide some kids will experience this summer won’t be the one at the local water park. It will be in their reading performance.

Sometimes pure happenstance leads me to go back and look at former stories or columns I’ve written.