Each generation has several events etched into memory where they can recall not only where they were when they heard the news, but what they were doing, as well. For my parents’ generation, it was the assassination of JFK. The generation before that remembers clearly the day that our country entered WWII, December 11, 1941 [...]

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. —Albert Schweitzer
With the ever increasing use of texting on our cell phones and Instant Messaging, also known as IM-ing on our [...]

The cliché: “Behind every good man is a good woman,” is known to most of us. Recently, I witnessed an equally powerful version. Behind every good woman…is another good woman.

It was evident when I met Anne Meguiar; the daughter of Althea Sheffield, Dana Swanson; Anne’s daughter, and Skylar Swanson; Dana’s daughter. And even though I [...]

“Are we going to leave? Are we going to stay?” I can still hear the urgency in my parents’ voices as they struggled with making the right decision. A local weather station had just announced a hurricane was barreling directly for the Georgia coastline. If it continued on its path, Richmond Hill would definitely be [...]

The desire to create is almost as basic as breathing to an artist and it is every artist’s dream to find a way to earn a living doing what he or she is driven to do. It is a long standing joke among artists that they work (other jobs) just to support their habits; very [...]

When Henry Ford first began acquiring thousands of acres of land on the lower end of Bryan County in the mid-1920s, he was immediately struck by the resonance of the voices of the local past. There were voices from the Ogeechee River and its legacy of antebellum rice plantations, voices from the War Between the [...]