Recent Posts
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Suddenly In Need of a Baby
DEEPWATER FATHER The impulse hit me like remembering something you forgot when you’re already on the highway. Suddenly I wanted children. Not just wanted, I thought I needed a baby, […]
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A Lover Lost
TOLD YOU NOT TO WORRY, that I would never leave you I gave you reasons to believe me. The white knight lover I am took out the garbage, washed the […]
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Beach Bum Aristocrat
REMEMBERING A PRINCE OF THE BEACH BUM ARISTOCRACY The Land of Shag has lost a prince. Walter Vann Applewhite, number 33 on the Myrtle Beach Seahawks football team. Graduated high […]
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Society of Stranders
What does a shag dancer need to stay healthy? Beach fever, the infection that cures the disease of loneliness. At the SOS Fall Migration in September, everybody got what they […]
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Dolphin in the Water
The wave action we were caught in made pulling the anchors dicey. To wait for the wind to calm down would have been the better move. Going forward to winch […]
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Bonfire of Desire
In the Land of Shag the dance of romance goes on. Holding hands at the edge of the floor feels dangerous. The music touches you, as it did when the […]
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Tribute to a Jukebox Giant
In The Land of Shag Lived Fat Harold, The Jukebox Giant. He called himself “Fat” For a name like that Was easy to remember. Giants choose their names Not to […]
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All You Need is Love
When I was a kid growing up in The Land of Shag, romance was my daily bread, also the peanut butter and jelly; I hungered for it more than French […]
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Signals
I made another bad choice of anchorage that night. For reasons I’m embarrassed to admit; instead of crossing the channel at Port Bolivar, heading for the inner harbor at Galveston, […]