“O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again,” cried Thomas Wolfe, shaking his fist at the fog mantling the shoulders of Grandfather Mountain. Inside the family cabin, however, Hans Idol…

“If my parents had both been bull moose, they would have locked antlers long ago and starved. Growing up in a scarred household, I often feared abandonment and prayed to die first. Fortunately,…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger  “The philosophy of Homeland Security seems to be, ‘If we cannot tie a good square knot, we’ll tie a lot of grannies.’ If New York were Baghdad…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “I realize that I have fallen far short of Thomas Edison, who exploited every visitor to his laboratory: guests had to push mightily through a turnstile to…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Aware that I might have lost some of you who have been busy ‘getting and spending’ or just hunting for gainful employment the last few years, let…

“In the 19th century, gentlemen were ‘requested’ to use the sidewalks; servants were ‘commanded’ to stay off the grass, while peers of the realm could frolic all over the turf. Now that the…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger   “From the appearance of things on the Clemson campus, it seems that about half the student body is on the phone at any given time while…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “In nature’s eyes, humans are as expendable as any of the 8.7 million species on the planet. And yet, is there another mammal who can do a…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “The older my ‘Presbyterian’ eyes get, the more I realize that the world, including my reflection in the mirror, looks a lot better when I take my…

Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “Personally, I favor the example set by Charles Darwin who as a boy collected specimens of the Coleopteran order. Once, with a beetle in each hand and…