When videos begin to circulate like this one of a young girl  being cured of leukemia using the HIV-virus to successfully attack the cancer cells in her body, the ripple effect can be felt around the world. Even in the Lowcountry. By stripping

When I left sports writing five years ago I thought I’d never go back into a press box again. But I did, and just as I thought, the sports world is getting along fine without me. Saturday I walked into the press box at Johnson Hagood Stadium for

I’m going to take a short break from the blog while I disappear into the mist of a new year to start writing a new book. Having published three novels, I know how incredibly easy and almost impossible it can be, all in the same day. But if you

“I made the mistake of asking my oncologist about my survivability,” she said. “Don’t ever do that. He told me I had a 50 percent chance of being dead in a year and a half.” That was the lowest point for Ranaee Janis of Chapin, S.C. She’d been

I read most of the comics in the newspaper almost every day and have my favorites. Mostly Doonesbury, Dustin, The Lockhorns, Bizarro, Ziggy, Non Sequitur, Mallard Fillmore, Pearls Before Swine, Zits and Dilbert, which are usually clever. What I