Random Brain Droppings

  It goes without saying that the selling and/or the purchase of a house is a time-consuming and exhausting endeavor. For my wife and I bac...

Last Friday about this time I was mentally preparing myself for the rough week that I knew was coming. It started Saturday with my wife and...

   There is a long sordid history of why I hate the subdivision I find myself living. Yes, it was a mistake to purchase a home among the col...

     As usual for me, August brings nothing but endless yard work and long, hot humid days with me dreaming of cooler weather. That was the ...

 For the obvious selfish and foolish reasons, I had begun to convince myself the South Carolina coast just might avoid any issues this ...

As someone who likes to hold the banner of science and rationality, I've got to admit to a certain level of hypocrisy. See, whi...

Growing up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina you had to expect loud and violent thunderstorms during the spring and summer months. ...

Home renovations are proceeding at the expected glacial pace with the biggest problem for me being that the kitchen table is filled to ove...

  No, I'm not bragging... If a period of time, in this case the 365 days making up a normal terrestrial year, could have sinister...

One of the benefits of living through several relatively calm hurricane seasons as a kid was that the “minor” tropical storms that ...