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Julie wouldn’t look me in the eye. She tore off bits of paper napkin and rolled them into little balls. Every few seconds she’d glance at her girlfriend pleading for help. She was trying to explain what happened to her marriage. And then she broke down. Tears welled up in her eyes and she put her head on my shoulder. Her girlfriend reached out and stroked her blonde hair.

Julie’s 41 with two teenagers and she’s alone and scared, not to mention devastated. A neighbor ended up with her husband. The road to love and happiness: what a brutal road.

The recent elections on the other side of the Atlantic continue to cause concern around the planet and news coverage in the United States is both short on explanation and perspective. That is why I asked Dr. Bill Downs to help sense of it all. Downs serves as Associate Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Georgia State University and is the author of numerous books and articles on contemporary politics in Europe. His most recent book, Political Extremism in Democracies: Combating Intolerance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) examines xenophobia and anti-immigrant parties across the continent.

By prompting people like Lynn Tilton to decide that "enough is enough." Well, to be honest, as a neighbor tells it, Lynn Tilton is responsible for the rescue of the paper mill in Gorham, NH because her ... Read on →

Becoming South Carolina’s lieutenant governor in March just might have saved Glenn McConnell’s life. “People have said ever since I came down here, I look healthier and I’ve been healing faster,” said McConnell, the powerful Senate president ... Read on →

As expected, North Carolina voters passed a constitutional amendment yesterday stating “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized." Polls had always shown the amendment had ... Read on →

I can't speak for crooks, drifters, and others standing before a judge, but law-abiding Georgians love their courthouses and well they should. Georgia has one of America’s great collections of courthouses. The buildings range from Greek ... Read on →

Lots of people have visited Bentonville, Ark., home of Walmart, for commercial reasons. Now there's another major reason to visit: to go to a new museum with a superb collection of American art. Not only that, ... Read on →

How often we drive along giving no thought to the road we travel. And more often than that we give no thought to how the road got its name. In my case, I’m often forced to ... Read on →

At supper my dad told of a conversation he had with a client in Pennsylvania earlier that day. It was April 9, 1968, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was laid to rest. "I ... Read on →

Huey P. Long is surely the most assassinated figure in American political history. Although he was murdered only once – bullet holes still visible in the marble around the ground floor elevators in ... Read on →

Do South Carolinians hate government? Is there something within our political DNA here in the Palmetto State that causes us to hate government – all governments? Some recent polling numbers would seem to say ... Read on →

Long ago we took great vacations. Simple trips beyond imitation. This might be a column to save especially if you remember A1A and Burma-Shave. — Despite the high price of gasoline the summer vacation lives ... Read on →

As the deep-throated, bone-jarring, creeping rumble of the Sturgis motorcycle rally dimmed with each mile, we rode south toward Nebraska. My wife, Arlette, a native of France, and I, both 55-year-old "boomers", were ... Read on →

With my teaching assistant contract drawing to its close, and my life in Vannes, France also nearing its conclusion, there remained one final French ... Read on →

Since the South’s interactions with the rest of the country are simply replete with examples of “incongruity between the actual result of a sequence ... Read on →

A two-fer, if ever there was one. According to the White House Press office, both the First Lady and the President spoke. However, despite ... Read on →

4th Century BC Greek Cup Depicts Lost Wax Foundry I tagged along with painter and sculptor Richard Cecil, friend and former Pine Lake neighbor, when ... Read on →

The place where you spend your formative years can draw you back with the pull of a magnet to metal. Or it can repel, ... Read on →

I have never met Howard Rich. And I expect that if I ever did – say, at a party or a backyard cook out — I’d probably think ... Read on →

High court needs to rule on 1993 school funding case. It takes four years for most high school students to graduate from high school. Most college students traditionally also ... Read on →

“Catch a cannonball, to take me down the line …” — The Band Clarksdale, Miss. – First, a moment of silence for the soul of a great American, the ... Read on →

What have man wrought? Well let’s start with iron, wrought iron. Favored for ornamental fences and gates it’s an aspect of the South that’s as southern as biscuits ... Read on →

They came screaming out of a dorm window somewhere in 1968 and on the way to some place you had to stop and wonder why someone was playing ... Read on →