Una Persona de Integridad
So. Its 2001 I think, maybe 2003, but my kids went to a youth group at our Church. We were really involved back then and the new youth pastor, Luke,…
Family & Personal
Happy NEW Year
New Year’s Eve is a threshold—one foot in the year that was, one in the year that will be. Rilke reminds us that the future isn’t just more of the…
Happy 100th to Dad
Today would have been Dad’s 100th birthday. He was never really pointed at 100 to be honest. I think 17 year old Billy (#10) would have been surprised that he…
9/11 – Twenty Four Years
OK, here’s mine. 24 years ago I was in a funeral home on Harrison Avenue in Panama City, Florida. It was temporarily the Bay County Association of Realtors when I…
Family Stories: The Grishams
More old pics on Mom’s side of the family. Look at that bow! This is my Great Aunt (Audra Leonard Bates Grisham 1905-1988), my Mom’s Mom’s sister, with her little…
Stilton Cheese, Quenby Hall, and The Ashby’s
Most who knows me likely know I am writing a book, or trying to. It is loosely based on my family’s history and includes real stories of actual people, including…
Happy Anniversary, Give Blood
I can’t give blood. My marriage has lasted for 37 years and I have gotten to celebrate our love, our commitment, our good luck to find each other, 37 times.…
“Happy Birthday”
Some days are better than other days. For example, today is my sixtieth birthday and I got to take my granddaughter to preschool. She calls me Grumpy. Today is a…
“Lauderdale Rifles”
Company D, 9th Alabama Infantry. My Great Great Grandfather TJ Fowler was on the roll. TJ is Thomas Jefferson, born 1831 in the new State of Alabama, statehood was 1819.…
Dad was an Artist
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Penny from the Past
I saw a penny in my change today. I noticed it because it was imperfect. I love the new quarters and the designs but sometimes an old one catches my…
2023 Spotify List
The list is always kind of, what, a little surprising I guess. Weathervanes came out this year so I expected wall-to-wall Jason Isbell. I could have told you King of…
Moving to North Carolina
My wife and I moved to Wilmington last summer for no reason other than we like the area, the water, and the proximity to our daughter in Durham. After 50+…
Visit The Azores
My wife and I got to visit to The Azores with our daughter, her husband and his parents. The take-away from our trip was a new enthusiasm for all things…
Free and Clear
Bill wrote a book! It’s really good too. He’s got a real talent for storytelling. The story is a really good one too and partially set at my house!
