The Deadly Silo

  September 9, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland I’ve always looked at silos with wonderment. Silos fill me with a sense of mystery. Just how do they work? Then I began to notice nearly all…

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Pursue that which is most important today

  September 2, 2026

(opens in new tab) By Jeff Becraft   Now, I am not a scientist, and I have never done any study on flies. And I have no desire to even…

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Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club

  September 2, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland October 1977—April 1990 Where The Music Died Now and then a kind of gravity draws me to an old building. I’m driving south on SC Highway 25…

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Blink Book Review: “Woe Is I” by Patricia O’Conner”

  September 2, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell   I’ve been working my way through some new and not-so-new favorite writing books this summer. One I’ve revisited is the latest edition of Patricia T.…

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Jumping into the action

  August 28, 2026

(opens in new tab) By Jeff Becraft   Years ago, I was on a week-long camp with a children’s home. Halfway through the week on Wednesday, the leader of the…

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Remembering Sacks, Wagons, Indians, & Leather

  August 27, 2026

By Tom Poland   I visited the Bart Garrison Agricultural Museum of South Carolina in Pendleton a few weeks back. If you’re a product of the rural South as I…

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Christmas stamps

  August 19, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Last December, we ran out of stamps. It was late one night and I decided to go to the post office and use their self-service station…

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A Chain-Smoking Cat Saved My Life

  August 19, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   Maybe I Saved Hers Too Summer 2022, St. Simons Island, I’m sitting around the pool when my niece, Harper, and her friend, Stella, ask me to…

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Blink Book Review: “The Irish Goodbye” by Beth Ann Fennelly

  August 19, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell My summer reading challenge continues with another book about writing. But this one doesn’t include a single tip, hint or rule to make my writing better.…

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A Disastrous Revolutionary War Battle

  August 12, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   Old battlefields seem more like parks. Trying to imagine cannon and cries of the wounded? Difficult, but not always. Farmers’ plows unearthed so many Minié balls…

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The difference that one person makes

  August 12, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   I talked about this a few years ago, but tagging onto what was written a little over a week ago about working together and the difference…

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Memory—The Good, Bad, Ugly & Sad

  August 5, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” Cormac McCarthy’s words. Lord knows I’d like to forget some things, namely…

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Get Some Windshield Therapy

  July 29, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland If you need to escape life’s ills, put some glass in front of your eyes and forget your worries on a back road. You’ll discover the bones…

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Blink Book Review: Anna Quindlen’s “More Than Enough”

  July 29, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell Anna Quindlen has long been one of my favorite authors, so I downloaded this audiobook without knowing much about this novel. That turned out to be…

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The way things work

  July 23, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   There was no Friday email last Friday because the two NC grandkids came into town. If there’s no Friday email, it usually means I’m out of…

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Dirty Laundry

  July 22, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   A Personal History My first time home from college I took a bag of dirty laundry to Mom. She tossed it out the door. “You’re education…

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Blink Book Review: Kathryn Stockett’s “The Calamity Club”

  July 22, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell It’s hard to know where to start with what I loved most about “The Calamity Club.” I’m finally becoming a historical fiction fan. Books like “The…

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Be ready for the little moments

  July 16, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Life is made up of moments. The thing is, there are many moments you really can’t orchestrate. As Aslan says to Lucy in the movie Prince Caspian (and…

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Shiloh Waits for Help

  July 15, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   I call it the Roll Call of The Waiting. Inactive churches in need of friends. Friendship, Dothan Methodist, St. Simon’s Episcopal Church, Halfway Creek, Workman Methodist,…

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Blink Book Review: Allen Levi’s “Theo of Golden”

  July 14, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell   Theo of Golden was high on my TBR list for summer this year. From what I’d heard, it needed to be a summer book –…

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Rights and freedom

  July 9, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   It is an incredible privilege to be able to live in the United States and have all the freedoms that we have. Millions of people around…

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Bookhardt Cemetery

  July 8, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   On a cool, windy day I drove Old Number 6 through farm country. You’d a thought wild horses had kicked up the pollen-yellow dust drifting over…

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Blink Book Review: Terry Szuplat’s “Say It Well”

  July 8, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell I like to mix fiction with “good for you” nonfiction on my summer reading list. My first nonfiction pick is Say It Well by Terry Szuplat,…

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The importance of team

  July 2, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Whatever happened to “team?” I have been corrupted by several people lately, and I am staying up way too late watching soccer games in the World…

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Struggle

  June 29, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   Title my photo Struggle. Caption it: Dreams die along the back roads. First two sentences: Can’t even sit in a chair and look forward to better…

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Fatherhood

  June 24, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Years ago, a chaplain in a prison made an offer to those incarcerated that anyone who wanted to send a Mother’s Day card to their mom,…

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A Body Of Work

  June 24, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   A woman asked what made me the proudest of all I had written. It isn’t books. Maybe one. It’s not the films. It’s not the magazine…

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Summer Blink Book Reviews Return

  June 22, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell If it’s summer, that means I’m back to my annual effort to get off the screens and back to the page by reading more. In recent…

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Second Chances and Sea Creatures

  June 20, 2026

By Tammy Davis   I’ve never said these words before: the movie was as good as the book—maybe better. But with Remarkably Bright Creatures, now streaming on Netflix, I think it’s…

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Live out your true identity

  June 18, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Every morning at Our Place of Hope, we throw out a question of the day to start off the morning meeting. We allow the members to…

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A Curious Battle For Independence

  June 17, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   It’s a battle Britain claimed to have won, and yet it sent the Redcoats to Charleston and back to Britain ending their presence in the Carolina…

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A Rare Sighting

  June 10, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   I have seen outhouses, smokehouses, henhouses, doghouses, and all manner of birdhouses. Mankind has its jailhouses, cathouses, flophouses, and roadhouses. A first for me, I saw…

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‘Tis the season for graduations and my 2026 “20 lessons” list

  June 3, 2026

By Reba Hull Campbell ‘Tis the season for graduations, new jobs and life transitions. It’s also the season for my annual updated “20 lessons” list. A number of years ago,…

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My City Of Dust Calendar

  June 3, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   Passport To Preservation John Mulhouse sent me his 2026 Abandoned New Mexico City of Dust calendar, and it’s a keeper. John’s beat is why. “The lost…

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The process of growing

  June 3, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   Two weeks ago, I talked about the plants at work and the variety of plants and how them blending together really brought out a great sense…

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Man, The Intruder

  May 27, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   The rains of late and spring’s approach set my mind on the Carolina bays, those coastal plain wetlands of mystery and life. The elliptical depressions are…

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There is a price that is paid

  May 25, 2026

By Jeff Becraft   On my way in today, I passed a guy who lives in our community. I often see him walking through our neighborhood. He is a Marine.…

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The World Book

  May 20, 2026
Tom Poland

By Tom Poland   A lulu of a lady sold my parents a set of the World Book Encyclopedia. Miss Lulu Goolsby to be exact. It changed my life living…

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