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EP 89: Uncle RC Stamper

6 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Fast Heart Mart

Episode 89: Went live with my Uncle RC Stamper. Uncle RC has had a big influence on my life and on this episode I went to his house in North Carolina to visit him and play some music. Songs -Keep On The Sunny Side (traditional) -More Pretty Girls Tha...

2022: an epic summer concludes

2 Aug 2025 21 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

    Emma originally planned on staying here 3 weeks. Then decided on another week, and then had to stay here another week beyond that, because Maddie and Jill came down with COVID. So it’s been an awesome and longer than expected summer visit here f...

2022: an epic summer continues

4 Jul 2025 12 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

  July 11 Emma walks through back door saying she feels like a “sack of meat” after long day. I came across Firestarter today, in my boxes of books, and give it to her to read – she seems excited. I make this creamy ravioli from Dinnerly...

2022: a zoo trip and other adventures

12 Jun 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  We have a few more relatively quiet days. Dad M and Cheryl sent $200 for Emma to spend this summer, which was really cool of them, so Erin takes her shopping - 2 brand new shirts, a couple of pencils she loves, a spiffy water bottle are the procee...

2022: another epic summer begins

6 Jun 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

McKayla and Emma, sitting on an interstate divider near Livingston, Kentucky These summers have become so epic in my mind, and I try to never take them for granted. My daughter Emma is 16 and currently lives with her mom and sister in Kentucky...

Focus On: Salisbury, NC

24 Jul 2024 18 minute read 1 comment jasonmcgathey

  Though situated along a major interstate, I-85, and boasting some 35,000 residents, it seems as though Salisbury is less well known than virtually any of the other nearby cities surrounding it. Even its Wikipedia page is a bit of a snoozefest. How...

Lumberton, North Carolina: Did I or Did I Not Play My Air Guitar?

9 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor

Lumberton, North Carolina was founded the same year the Constitutional Convention sent the U.S. Constitution to Congress for approval. That year was 1787. Three years before, Robeson County was created by two Revolutionary War heroes. Their names wer...

Selma, North Carolina: Guess Which Commercial Health Product Was Created Here

14 Nov 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor

Theresa and I recently went to Pennsylvania and returned to Texas again. On our home back to Texas, we stopped in Selma, North Carolina to see their historic train station. It was pretty cool. I always try to learn at least one new tidbit that I didn...