Category Archives: Opinions
Courier Letter’s The Editor 5-26-21
Informative, as usual
Dear Editor,
I read Councilman Alex Saitta’s letter to the editor on May 19. It was very informative, as usual. I agree with his priorities of the recycle centers. They have gone down the past few years. On numerous occasions, I have gone to the center and the trash bin was full and bags were
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Pretty lonely on the back porch
About 12 years ago, my wife Kathy started hearing a noise in our basement that sounded like a baby crying.
When I went down there to check, I found a small gray cat with a heart-shaped white spot over her heart who had 
somehow snuck into the basement and gotten trapped. It was the same cat I
had seen a few days earlier running across the driveway as I was pulling in, and I said, “Look out, you smokey little critter!” She was the color of smoke, you see.
So I rescued Smokey from the basement and gave her a bowl of milk, and we became friends.
She was a stray apparently, but she must have had a previous owner, because she was gentle and sweet — not like the feral cats who showed up on the doorstep a few months later.
Since I doubt that you remember the column I wrote about our cats a couple
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Some things you should never do
It was raining. Not the pouring down kind of rain that washes seeds out of the ground, but the soft rain of May.
It was early, and the coffee had just been made.
So I rolled out of my warm, comfortable bed and put on my old bedroom slippers to venture downstairs.
There’s nothing like that first cup of coffee.
Someone else who lives here had already gotten their first cup and was
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It’s the bee’s knees
I was in the garden planting pollinator flowers when a bee kept buzzing around my head. Its tiny body was energetically bustling through the air, searching for nectar from the perfect flower. I kept looking, trying to see if he had any knees.
“The bee’s knees” was a fanciful phrase that originated in the 18th century and referred to something that didn’t exist. I think they were right, because I couldn’t see any knees on that bee.
However, in the 1920s, a lot of silly expressions became popular, and “it’s the bee’s knees” came to mean something extraordinarily wonderful, like
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Courier Letters to the Editor
Overriding issue facing the county
Dear Editor,
The county council is in the process of drawing up the budget for next year. To me, the most overriding issue facing the county, as well as all elected leaders in our county, cities and towns, is sprawl. Not just urban sprawl from Greenville, but regional sprawl from those fleeing the northeast and Florida and moving to the Carolinas. If we do not get ahead of the things population growth is stressing, we will be eaten up. Additionally, I want to protect the quality of life of
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Relentless compassion of God
I notice when talking with certain people about Christian living, it’s common for them to lose eye contact as they start searching for a way to change the subject. Actually, this is perfectly understandable. Why? Because if someone, even if 
they are somewhat religious, has never given their heart to Jesus Christ or made the commitment to follow him, they feel uncomfortable thinking and talking about it.
Our natural mind and the Spirit of the Lord are like oil and water, as the old nature wants nothing to do with being held accountable or surrendering our will to anyone, especially to God. Conviction from the Holy Spirit is a sense
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For want of a shoe, a horse was lost
Do you remember the old saying we learned in elementary school? Miss Moore, our sixth-grade teacher, cited it often. Thinking back, I recall hearing this when anyone didn’t show up with their homework.
It goes like this:
“For want of a shoe, a horse was lost. For want of a horse, a rider was lost. For want of a rider, a soldier was lost. For want of a soldier, a battle was lost. For want of a battle, a war was lost.”
I was reminded of this while I searched for pine straw this week. Or pine
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Hot sauce spirituality
It’s easy to find people who can express their opinions about the Bible while at the same time having a tight grip on the amount of their will they surrender to God. Sound familiar?
In a controlled environment and at a comfortable distance, many live their lives keeping God in a box and only letting Him out when they want something or have a crisis. I can write from my own experiences, as I’ve lived much of my life this way.
It’s only after spending years researching about the war between our
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What will we do with our time?
What did we really accomplish this past year? We’ve had time, certainly, with all these lockdown days, weeks and 
months, to do any number of things.
After reviewing my year of COVID, I realize that I could have done so much more, had I only known just how long
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oExperience of a lifetime
Dear Editor,
Sometimes we experience things we just need to share. Maybe say thanks to the people who made it possible.
Last Thursday, May 6, was the National Day of Prayer. So grateful our government still recognizes and encourages us to pray. This may not always be the case.
I am also grateful to the churches and the businesses who provide a place for us to collectively gather and make our
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