Black Mountain, North Carolina Black Mountain, North Carolina, was always a favorite road trip for the family when we still lived in the Carolinas. One of our first trips together as a family was to Black Mountain during a snowfall.

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2007 in Chesnee, SC In 2007, we were living in Chesnee, South Carolina. We got a holiday visit from our granddaughter, Cerridwen Hall, daughter of my son, Quentin Bruce Hall. She got to stay with us for the weekend. Wish

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USC Upstate Halls are generally late bloomers. After many false starts earlier in my life, I finally graduated from the University of South Carolina Upstate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Experimental Psychology, cum laude, at the age of

Continue Reading2005 May 14 – Graduation from the University of South Carolina

Cherokee, North Carolina This was actually two separate trips, one in 2005 and another in 2007. The photos from each got mixed into the same folder, so I’m no longer sure which ones were on which dates. This was before

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Exact Date Unknown – Spring of 2004 Terry is singing in a choral recital. She’s on the far right. I don’t remember the exact date or location of this particular performance.

Halloween Handfasting One of the first things Teresa and I had in common was a love of cats and of the musical Cats. So, on Halloween of 2001, we got married in Boiling Springs, South Carolina, under an oak tree

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Meeting Jeff Foxworthy In 2001, while I was still in college, I had the chance to work behind the scenes in radio as the Assistant Promotions Director for Greenville’s WROQ and WTPT. It was a fast-paced job that came with

Continue Reading2001 November 8 – Blue Collar Comedy Tour

Charlton Hall Skydiving with the Flying Tigers This was my first and second time skydiving with the Flying Tigers out of Oconee Airport near Clemson, South Carolina. I only did two static line jumps altogether. Kat was also there, and

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Wardruna in Portland Teresa and I took an Amtrak from Tacoma to Portland in September of 2025 and saw Wardruna in concert. We spent the weekend walking around, exploring one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever been to. We

Continue ReadingPortland, Oregon, September 11-14, 2025