Seeding Spartanburg

I haven’t really said anything at all about Mark Sanford publicly…hell, I haven’t said much at all on my blog lately much less something political. I’ve been in one of my ‘not in the mood’ to blog periods for a while now. Blogging politics is stressful y’all and sometimes you gotta step back. So I [...]

Spartanburg had our first gay PRIDE march today.  And WOW. Just wow. What a cool day. I just never imagined how great it would be. I would be lying if I didn’t admit to being nervous about it all because there are some crazy people in this country and we’ve really seen them in the news [...]

Yep. I'm taking on a column somewhere else because I'm doing SUCH a fabulous job keeping up with my own blog. Steve over at Spartanburg Spark invited me to write a column about local/sustainablity issues months ago. I finally did it. Hope you all will give it a gander: Sustain Spartanburg: Takin' Care of the 'Burg Y'all [...]

Thanks for this laugh Keith and YES…it would make a great bumper sticker. "South Carolina is too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum." – James L. Petigru. And he said that in 1860! Hope everyone is well. I've been a horrible blogger lately. Busy, busy. Trying to change [...]

WHAT: Free Film ("After Innocence") and Panel DiscussionWHEN: Tuesday 6/2, 6:30 pmWHERE: Spartanburg Public Library (Barrett Room)Spartanburg's ROOT newspaper is proud to kick off its free summer film series with the award-winning documentary AFTER INNOCENCE. AFTER INNOCENCE tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated — innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after [...]