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Have you ever considered how much faith you exert — even if you're not a 'person of faith' — that there's always more time waiting?

I reached a significant career milestone last week: I marked 30 years in TV. It's been a wild ride I hope won't end soon.

Many of us take the time on a day like Thanksgiving to count our blessings and things we're thankful for. That should be true even in 2020.

This might be 2020's only Monday I'm looking forward to because it's my 51st birthday. I can stop worrying about the big 5-0 hanging over me.

In some ways, I find it hard to believe it's been five years since the Charleston church shooting. But somehow, it's still too recent a tragedy.

The store where I worked my first job, the Kmart in West Columbia, is scheduled to close its doors for the last time this weekend.

Here’s the 7th set in my ongoing Patrick’s 100 Movies where I pick my favorite films. Making a list like this is definitely harder than you'd think.

Here’s the sixth set of movies in my onging Patrick’s 100 Movies. I hope you're finding some of your favorites on this list!

A team-building exercise prompted me to take a personality test to determine which of nine types I am. But can one test tell the whole story?

For most churches, being baptized is a critical step. When I was a kid, the fact that I hadn't been by the time I was in grade school raised eyebrows.

Retailers Sears and Kmart, once giants in the industry, are in such bad shape that their closure is imminent, according to investment experts.

One of my aunts, one of those relatives I've known as long as I can remember, passed away Thursday morning.

My first job was running a cash register at Kmart, a company that I've watched slide into financial trouble over the years. During my five years working there, I moved up from cashier to checkout supervisor and service desk employee, which meant I ran the front desk, handled customer service...

Yesterday, I celebrated a milestone: I have worked in the TV business for a quarter-century. Wow. Does that make me feel old. As I look back at my 25 years in television, I think back to the first time I walked into a television studio. I must have been about...

The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds into its flight, taking the lives of seven crew members and reminding the world how short life can be. It's hard for me to believe that it has been 30 years since the Challenger disaster. I suppose that's normal when we realize...

I've always believed that you can tell whether you are having a great vacation when you completely lose track of what day it is. That's the kind of vacation — an early Christmas vacation — I've had over the past week. I spent several days with some close friends for whom the...