Adventures of a Southern Country Sandlapper

This is my story, tracing my life from the beginning (1941) to

the present (2023), highlighting trails I have traveled as a

"Sandlapper" from the sandhills of South Carolina. Three

central themes guide the path to transformation:

Mind: How challenges in the pursuit of four university

degrees, with a serious learning disability, led to courageous

risk-taking across six careers

Body: How a farmboy's body developed through demanding

work in the fields to sports, hiking, long-biking, yoga, strength

training, and golf

Spirituality: How a young Southerner, growing up in a

devoted Methodist family, nurtured a vastly different spirituality

centered on humanism.

I trust the reader can connect my adventures to your their trail

of life.