Seeding Spartanburg

I did!!!! Remember, I planted it a couple of months ago. This past Friday, I made my family a gorgeous salad for dinner made with lettuce I grew all by myself. I’m so proud of myself. I have pictures to share…I just have to figure out how to get them up here. My little organic [...]

With every day that passes, the more this song becomes more TRUE. The hardest to learn was the least complicated. We spend so much on the things that don't matter. I hope we'll work to change that. Let's. xo, t

A friend and fellow USCS (Upstate) alum, Lucas Patterson, started this cool little paper a year or so ago entitled "ROOT: Spartanburg's Journal of Uncommon Kindness." It's a great paper…so if you see it around town…pick it up and give it a read. Out JUST today is the Earth Day edition. Another friend, Allyn Steele, was responsible for putting this edition together. [...]

On this Earth Day….what can I do to make a difference in how I impact the earth? Watch “The Story of Stuff” and rethink your consumptive habits. (It all starts with ME.) Attend the Community-wide Forum sponsored by Spartanburg Educators for Empowered Communities (SEEC) this Friday (April 25th) from 4:00 to 5:30 at the Hub-Bub Showroom, [...]

I am definitely in a transitional period these days. I feel it. My family feels it. I think this is probably the largest personal growth transition I’ve been through since graduate school. A transition that has me thinking about everything I am doing with my life. Why? I don’t know really. What caused it? Dunno. [...]

So we’ve got this situation on the Goupstate.com forums. There is a poster/commenter on there who is a big racist. Big whoop. I know. We’ve got a lot of racists in SC who go into public forums and make racist, sexist, anti-gay comments. But, this guy is different. This guy calls himself Lamb. I’ve watched [...]

For the final season. Barbeque & Politics Gervais REALLY knows SC politics and the shady folks that run it. This past week he returned. And I've never been happier. Bookmark his blog. Read often and share with your friends. Wondering who is behind South Carolinians for Responsible Government? PFC? and the rest of the groups [...]

Thanks to Dr. S for this Friday morning smile. This is fantastic. I'm A Liberal. Hope everyone has a GREAT weekend. I'll be working in my veggie garden attempting to sustain myself and my family to some degree. Be safe, t

And the men who hold high placesMust be the ones to startTo mould a new realityCloser to the heart The blacksmith and the artistReflect it in their artForge their creativityCloser to the heart Philosophers and ploughmenEach must know his partTo sow a new mentalityCloser to the heart You can be the captainI will draw the [...]