Saturday, 9:00 AM An hour ago, I stepped off a plane that brought me to Atlanta from my new home in New Bern, North Carolina. I’m here for several reasons […]

Things seem to be going fairly well in my life, all things considered. There are probably a lot more positives than negatives. My new job is ceasing to feel so […]

(Via iPhone)(Updated with photographs: click to enlarge.) Eastern North Carolina is not home to a great number of popular tourist destinations, but it has its share of important historic sites. […]

I’m slowly settling into my new home. The town known as New Bern, North Carolina is a historic one, celebrating its tricentennial this year, and it’s certainly an interesting place. […]

I’ll bet you were thinking that I’d forgotten how to write! For my sake, I hope you’re wrong. There’s certainly a lot to write about in my life recently, but […]

There is a sickness plaguing this nation, if not the entire developed world. It is a sickness born of tragedy and incubated by panic. Spread by the winds of outrage […]

This entry breaks an unwritten rule to which I’ve held myself. In the years since I began this blog in August of 2003, not once have I mentioned the name […]

I’ve been somewhat disturbed lately by the number of trite phrases used by writers, particularly in journalism. I wonder if the trend represents a decline in general creativity. Why is […]

It’s strange how certain terms, even ones I’ve used in conversation, correspondence, or expository writing, can go unexplained, their meanings merely abstract concepts that fit my thoughts at the time. […]

What’s that you say? A month ago I promised to finish my epic tale of sunburn and homesickness? I apologize for what must have been intolerable suspense. Life has been […]

As a friend pointed out recently, it’s been some time since I wrote here. It’s not been an intentional hiatus; rather, my creative energies have been focused in other directions […]

Note to British readers: Please substitute “right” for “left” and “left” for “right” in the following discussion. Note to Jamaican readers: This will be very confusing, and you might want […]

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. Two weeks ago, my co-workers and I were given an “offer” by our employer. The company is apparently broke, and we were given […]

As I walk out through the glass door of my office building and into the serene stillness of the parking lot, one clear voice shatters the silence. At first the […]

Some of the best photographs I’ve ever taken have been happy accidents. I was once a very active pilot. I’m not now; I fly desks and mixing consoles and digital […]

I apologize for the headline, but it’s a fairly common trait among aviation people to be a little callous about airline crashes. I admit that I’d be far less so […]

I haven’t had a lot to write recently, so I thought I’d share something with you that I’ve recently rediscovered. I read this many years ago while in high school, […]

UPDATE 28 Feb 2009: Several letters (the old fashioned kind, printed on paper, sent in envelopes with stamps) have been dispatched to higher-ups at Georgia Power and its parent company, […]