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Seen / Unseen Greenville: Como’s Pete’s, Augusta Road, and the Changing Face of Greenville
I can almost picture walking into Como’s Pete’s. There was the fish tank, which they kept stocked, and that slightly acidic bathroom smell you passed on the way into the main restaurant. That is probably not the most appealing way to begin remembering a place where you loved to eat, but it is what I…
Fragments of a Life: The Hill Toward Home
Childhood on Fairview Avenue in Greenville: the backyard, Mom’s garden, and winter days sliding on the driveway with my older brother Gregg.
Fragments of a Life: The Two Books
Welcome to Fragments of a Life. These posts tell my story in pieces—starting with childhood and the people, places, and experiences that shaped me. Some are memories; others explore what I understand differently now.You can read each piece on its own or follow the connections between them. There’s no required starting point. Visit the Fragments…
Fragments of a Life: The Explorer Is Live
I’ve been working on a way to let you explore Fragments of a Life as the pieces arrive. There’s now a small, working demo on the site. Try the Fragments explorer. For now, it connects the project introduction and four short posts about finding your way around. You can click between them, follow a thread,…
Start Anywhere
There isn’t one right way into this project. Fragments of a Life is a memoir taking shape in pieces: childhood stories, later experiences, and reflections on things I understood differently as I got older. The books give those pieces a reading order. Here, I’m also making room for you to follow the connections. A house…
Follow a Connection
One memory often brings another with it. I might begin by describing the house where I grew up and find myself remembering something that happened in one of its rooms. Following that memory might bring me to my brother, a friend, or a question I still want to ask my mother. The connections in this…
Two Kinds of Time
Something happens when you’re a child. You remember it for years. Then a conversation, a photograph, or something your own child does changes how you understand it. The event belongs to one time. The new understanding belongs to another. Both are part of Fragments of a Life. Some posts will stay close to what I…
A Story Still Growing
Right now, this is a small web of introductions. Soon, the stories will begin to fill it. I’m starting with childhood: the house, the neighborhood, the people, and the things I remember in pieces. Alongside those stories, I’ll share later reflections, questions, and things that come back through conversations with my family. The project will…
Fragments of a Life: What I’m Working On—and What’s Coming Here
Try the Fragments explorer. I have been spending a lot of time in a house I haven’t lived in for decades. The house is on Fairview Avenue in Greenville. My brother is somewhere nearby, probably doing something I want to be included in. Mom is making something beautiful or telling us not to destroy something…
Undoing Education
I have been writing about myself lately. I was the kid who didn’t understand math. The teacher had taught it. I knew she had taught it. I had been sitting there while she taught it. I still didn’t understand. The next lesson needed something from the previous lesson, and I was already missing that piece.…
Making A Plan
This started with me collecting the old books into one book called Fragments of a Life Revisited. I was going to gather what I had already written, go through it, and try to make it fit together. Then I kept finding things I wanted to spend more time with. Going back through the notebook has…
Fragments of a Life: First Updates
The blog has been pretty quiet lately. I haven’t. If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you probably know how I tend to work. I’ll post constantly for a while, disappear into something else, come back with twelve new ideas, and sometimes decide the whole thing needs to be rebuilt from the…
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