Category Archives: Opinions
Our character reflects the things we love
Most of us have heard that having lots of money cannot buy love or bring happiness. Since I’ve never been mega-wealthy, I will trust God on this one.
Most people are trying to build financial security, but it’s also common for those who succeed to encounter frustration and disappointment. Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 gives us this divine insight, “Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. As goods increase, so do those who consume them, and what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them? The
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New number for suicide crisis line
Across the country there is a new mental health suicide and crisis line phone number: 988. The Department of Veterans Affairs has merged services with that number to provide an additional resource for veterans to call when they’re in crisis.
A result of the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020, the bill was passed and signed off as law. It’s startling, however, to learn that this bill was first created and sponsored by 34 U.S. senators in 2019. (You can go here to learn whether your state’s senators were among those
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The tale of the star-crossed lovers
Boomer is our beloved boxer bulldog. He’s five years old, an avid soccer player, handsome, personable and kind to children. He watches television through the window of the front porch if there’s something on he’s interested in.
He gets upset during a football game, because he is uneasy when people hit each other.
In other words, he is a very civilized dog.
Because he is five and soon to be six, we thought seriously about finding him a mate, but we didn’t want just anybody.
He is such a wonderful dog, we wanted to have a puppy from a litter he had sired.
After looking for some time, an opportunity seemed to fall into our laps.
A lady we know said her sister had a beautiful bulldog who needed a
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I speak to the trees
I have a confession to make…
I talk to my plants.
Whether they can hear me or not is questionable — but they certainly talk to me.
“Hey, Señor TaterBug! How about some water over here!” one of my banana pepper plants hollered as I walked by.
“Can’t you see it’s going to be raining in a few minutes?” I replied, patiently. “And my name’s not TaterBug!”
JoJo — that’s his name — just glared at me and muttered in Spanish about something
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Courier Letters to the Editor 7-27-22
Speak up, speak out
Dear Editor,
Nineteen innocents dead, and two adult teachers as well. America stands in shock while asking how could anyone be so heartless!? 63 million innocents killed since Roe v. Wade was put into law, and America doesn’t even blink! Is this what our nation has come to? Innocent blood is the same as innocent lives being taken. Wrong! Murder is murder, no matter what name it is given. It’s still the taking of innocent lives that wanted to live! Abortion has been
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Taxing thoughts and eye popping numbers
My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw the breakdown of the proposed budget for the city of Easley that was printed as a public notice in the Courier a few weeks ago.
The figure that had my heart palpitating was the percentage jump in the property tax revenue.
It called for a whopping 26.6 percent growth — which I assumed to be attributable to development.
Whoa!
If that keeps up for another three years, Easley will be more than twice as big as it was last year — or something like that. At least that’s the way it appeared at first glance.
But the notice in the paper, while it told in the fine print what the millage rate would be in the proposed budget, it didn’t point out that the figure —
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The eagle and the chicken
The eagle who believed he was a chicken
Once there was a young eaglet that accidentally fell from the safety of his nest high on the mountain. Miraculously, he fell in a patch of soft grass and survived. He stumbled out into the open and a farmer saw him and brought him to the farm and placed him inside a chicken coop with all the other chickens. Since the eagle had not yet discovered his true identity, he started watching the other birds and naturally followed their habits
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Doing It on Your Own
The headline of this column could actually be “What to do when your local veterans group doesn’t step up to help other veterans.”
Because, yeah, it happens.
Mostly it’s for compelling reasons — the members might be older (I saw an unofficial citation showing that the average age of American Legion members is their late 60s). For the Veterans of Foreign Wars, it was early 70s. I believe it. Or post membership might have
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What’s happened to America the Beautiful?
O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain. For purple mountains majesty above the …
#blood in the streets
#killer on the rooftop
#pandemonium at the parade
…fruited plain.
I’m sorry; I wanted to write a stream of consciousness piece about the supreme irony of a guy using the freedom won by our patriot forefathers and
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How can we keep our children safe?
Do you know anybody who favors the widespread sale of assault weapons to the public? I’ve talked to a lot of people and so far haven’t found a soul who thinks this should be happening. So far, the majority of those polled want a ban.
Why is this happening? Well, I can only speak for myself, but if you want to protect children and if you value their lives, you realize that easy access to AR-15s and other weapons of war is making children and others victims of slaughter.
Even though the majority of us want assault weapons banned,
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