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Recent Blog Posts
Remembering Herb Pate
On January 31, 1990, we lost my cousin Herb Pate in a plane crash in Coral County, Oklahoma.
Our 1st Wedding Anniversary
On this, our first wedding anniversary, I thought I would do something here and print something nobody has ever seen before. As Kirke and I were preparing to be married, our minister, Donald Warren, asked both of us to write a letter to him on why we wanted to be...
ACC Baseball Tournament
This past week, Kirke and I fed our baseball passions with tickets to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) baseball tournament. We are huge baseball fans and season ticket holders to the University of North Carolina (UNC) baseball team.
Memorial Day
Here in Wake Forest, North Carolina, where I live, the local Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and Daughters of the America Revolution come together to do a ceremony at the Wake Forest Veterans Memorial at 11am every year on Memorial Day. This event normally draws over 300 people.
Wesley “Wes” May – A True Shag Dancing Legend
Yesterday, April 2, 2023, I learned of the passing of a good friend of mine whom I had known for over 34 years. I first met Wesley “Wes” May as a young shag dancer at Fat Harold's and The Pad in North Myrtle Beach in the mid 1980s. Phillip Tilghman and I used to call...
Mike and Judy Pate 55th Wedding Anniversary
December 29, 2022 To honor my parents’ 55th wedding anniversary, I have taken bits and pieces of wedding announcements, engagement announcements and other clippings I have found over the years to put together what would have been the news article from December 29,...