Short Stories

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

General Stores, The Last Frontier

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Country stores, those dinosaurs that dot the highways in disrepair with swinging rusty signs that read Esso, Mobil or Shell fell prey to ...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Bury that fruitcake and get your Charleston Chi back on after Christmas.

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Now, I’m one of the biggest Lowcountry Christmas fans in these parts. I’m decking the halls the minute the turkey carcass hit’s the skids. M...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Marvin Gaye, Black Lives Matter, Kenny Chesney, Jefferson Davis — up in here, up in here

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Well, this has been a week from hell but heaven won out —again. In the category of absof'nlyridiculous, this one was right up there. W...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Eggs & Eclipses

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It was my Daddy's birthday this week, it's been almost 3 years since he died. The stabbing heartache has eased, the pain has turne...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Watermelon, the ultimate party favor. Bradford Watermelon's & Edible Charleston Magazine

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When the barometer starts rising and we edge near the summer-fun holidays, I start digging in the pantry to take inventory of my picnic a...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Confessions of a Southern Gardener

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I enjoyed writing this essay for the inaugural edition of Charleston Edible Magazine.   A few months ago, probably around the winter solst...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Hank's Seafood — Charleston, SC

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   The cool evening air was heady with the wafting aroma of charred, broiled and baked everything from Charleston, SC’s mecca of culinary...