Dental fear, anxiety, phobia, whatever you want to call it and to what degree. I had it once. It took me a while to get over one bad experience. In hindsight, it hinged on three key factors: Painful experience. I lost an old filling in one of my molars and needed it replaced. That’s all…
South Africa, a place where the not-so-distant past is riddled with division and despair, which makes it ironic that this is a country of great warmth, not just climate-wise. For a nation that was so divided, how can South Africans be some of the warmest people on earth? As an American, I can attest to…
I have spent considerable time over the last twenty or so years wandering around the marshes near Savannah, the value of which may be lost on some. Most of that time there was a fly rod in my hand and I was hunting tailing, feeding Redfish, or as they are known here Spottail Bass. I…
We spent a morning with Savannah realtor Chris White and a client he was showing houses to, while shooting a video. We looked at quite a few homes with them on our tour through Downtown Savannah. Not all of the footage made it into the final cut of the short video, some lacked “curb appeal.”…
It’s a small business nation out there. Correction: It’s a family-owned business (FOB) nation out there in which 90 percent of businesses in the U.S. are family owned or controlled, according U.S. Census data. Those range from corporations like Walmart and Ford to small businesses with under 500 employees. That is a surprising number when…
How did Labor Day begin? I am not a historian, but I can share a good story I heard on PBS. While there was a growing movement for a national Labor Day in the late 1800’s, it wasn’t until after a strike in Pullman, Illinois outside of Chicago (home of the Pullman rail cars) that…
All across America, children over five will be occupied for the majority of the day, five days a week. Their busy brains will feast on language arts, social studies, math, science, art and whatever else is on the uniform shirts I pulled out from last year. One, white uniform shirts should be outlawed. Two, I’m…
While most humans take off weight in the summer months, our dog puts it on. He’s a very large black Labrador retriever. He tends to stay inside when it’s hot out, but will slim down again in the fall when he is out doing what he loves – hunting. Swimming is key for retrievers because…
You know you’ve had children when you DVR the nightly news. I gave up the nightly news a while ago, it was hopeless. However, one evening when the kids’ shows ended and programming rolled over into the Newshour, I caught a valuable piece of news (after multiple rewinds). It began with the usual depressing message…
As the urban legend goes, someone moved from a smaller older updated house to a larger newly built house where they doubled their square footage and cut their energy bills in half. I am guilty of passing it on in a conversation or two. Fast forward to the other day, I am a bystander in…
Last Christmas, Santa dropped a joggling board on the porch for my two sons ages 5 and 7. The joggling board was painted in its traditional Charleston green and blended right in with the porch furniture. Like many of you reading this post now, I had no idea what a joggling board was. Was it…
Welcome to Lil G Blog! Lil is an acronym for Local inside look (Lil). At Glimsity, we’re a resource for local knowledge. Our perspective is less from the bird’s eye, more at the roots. In our regular work day we talk to a lot of people, collect useful nuggets of information, gather insight and identify…