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One Grand Trip
I turned 50 and my marriage turned 20 in 2019. It was a heckuva grand year, with no better way to mark the occasion than flying to Phoenix and making a slow drive back home through the American Southwest. Along the way, we saw lots of new birds and thought lots of new thoughts about the nature of things.
The China Blog
In March 2011, I took a nine-day jaunt through China with my wife, one of her Beaufort High School co-workers and a gaggle of students. In addition to landmarks, we breathed indescribable smog, witnessed public urination and chewed knots of gristle the Chinese tried to pass off as beef. Read all about it here.
Tales From the Attic
I often shake my family tree. This blog is a collection of what falls out. (The photo, by the way, is possibly of my great-great-grandmother, Nancy Abigail Quesenbery Hall. It's one of my favorites, although I've not been able to verify that it's her.)
Looking for Lynette
I was an incurious adoptee who never dreamed he would go looking for his birth mother. Then Mom died. Suddenly, searching was not just an option. It was an obligation. This blog explains why I searched and what I found.
Untamed Lowcountry
I started this blog on the Island Packet website nearly a decade ago to highlight the abundant wonder of nature in South Carolina's Lowcountry. It featured many of the photos and videos you've seen at ThatsBug2U.com, original articles and aggregated stories from around IslandPacket.com and elsewhere on the Internet. It's no longer my blog, but a vestiage of it survives on the newspaper's website.