You don’t have to spend much time around here to figure out I have an interest in history. People don’t change much, do they? We complain about the salaciousness of today’s news media, but our third President, Thomas Jefferson, actually purchased entire news outlets to spew venom at his political enemies, all hidden behind the quills of reporters who repackaged his words as their own.

Whenever I visit Pon Pon Chapel of Ease, I feel closer to our flawed Founders.Continue Reading

We spend every Fourth of July in Denmark.

South Carolina.

Denmark, South Carolina.

Yes, there really is such a place. It’s between Finland and Norway, close to North. (If Bill Cosby couldn’t understand it, you won’t either, Dear Readers.)Continue Reading