- Daddy’s Too Quiet: A South Carolina father’s reflections on the Charlottesville terror attack (Bitter Southerner)
- Grace in the Holy City: On Charleston, a city that turned tragedy into hope (Charlotte magazine)
- Bust: The night southern poker turned bloody (Bitter Southerner)
- American Graffiti (2016): Examining the half-life of compassion (WWdN)
- The monsters are real: When a monster stole a little girl from my hometown
- The stillness of an 8-year-old’s chest: A parent looks at the Boston Marathon bombing
- Dear Son: On the morning of Sandy Hook
- Giggling at hell: Children practicing how not to get murdered
- Carry me home: My flight home with an American hero
- This is our home: Raising my white children 2015 South Carolina (Greenville Journal)
- One night at Northwood: On a evening when baseball didn’t matter (Greenville Journal)
- Little hands, big gifts: A few kids after a Biblical flood (Greenville Journal)
- The gift of courage: The monsters that scare us the most are the ones we create with our own cowardice (Greenville Journal)
- Life reps: My kids likely won’t be pro athletes, but they are still training…for something bigger (Greenville Journal)
- Sing me back home: When I don’t know what to say, I listen and sometimes sing (Greenville Journal)
- On neighbors and one of Greenville’s best: I lost a neighbor who taught me a lot about being a neighbor (Greenville Journal)
- How to be am ambassador Michael Chavis-style: A young Red Sox prospect proves early maturity (Greenville Journal)
FAMILY AND PARENTING
- St. Francis Hospital: The real cost of having a baby: A trip through paying for a baby out-of-pocket
- Father’s Day 2012: My first Father’s Day without my dad
- Four fathers: When my kid met s soldier on a plane
- Ode to Black Dog: From rescue, to purebred, and back
- Saturday night lights: Should a kid play football?
- Goodbye to my dog: A long goodbye to a short dog
- To catch a fish: Watching my dad teach my son to fish
- Sinner and a sinner’s son: Woops, I taught my kid to gamble
- The Brett Favre of parenting: How I choked in the clutch and almost burned down my house
- Last kiss: Watching my grandmother say goodbye to her only love
- To my second son: A letter written to my son upon his birth
- Grandpa was a gambler: The things I learned about my grandfather after his death
POLITICS & CULTURE
- To the victims of 9/11: I’m sorry: An apology to the people who we failed
- Burn this, sinners: On the burning of a holy book
- An open letter to President Obama: A listing lib has his say
- I knew I should be afraid: Terror babies and why you should be scared of them
- Choir robes, $25,000 shrimp and grits, and the modern Presidency: On money and politics
FOOD AND DRINK
- How to make a Moscow Mule: An homage to an old drink with a new life
- Otis and the Pisco Sour: Refreshment in Peru
- The superpancho: Finding a delicacy in Argentina
HEAD-SHRINKING AND NAVEL-GAZING
- Notes on fear: Climbing a literal and figurative mountain of fear
- Ode to a weeping cherry: A post that was about a little more than a rotting tree
- The Dennis DeYoung Dilemma: Who would you rather be?
- Charles Wakefield, finally free: My biggest professional mistake made right
- Dogs at large: A trip through northern Argentina
RUNNING
- On getting naked: Why I started running and why I haven’t stopped
- 13.1 miles for Dad: Running my first half marathon a week after my dad died
SUBURBAN WARRIORS
- Welcome to the neighborhood: What happens when the Willis family moves in
- Sunday warrior: Saving my family’s Super Bowl