About Gardening
By Bill Shepard The calendar has already announced that spring is here and that means it is time to think about gardening. Here in the upstate of South Carolina, planting time is a little slower in coming than when I was a boy and living in Darlington. There, we planted on Good Friday every year. It seems that folks on the village where I grew up had some kind of religious superstition tat seed planted on Good Friday would germinate...
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Over the 40 years that I have known her, I have come to have great respect for my wife’s political antenna.
National Teacher Day Appreciation Day
I’ll always be grateful for the loving guidance of my first-grade teacher, Mrs. Abercrombie.
The cost of war (A debt that can never be fully paid)
“Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars,” those are the words of Jesus Christ. Matthew 24.
One SC Woman Making a Difference – Globally
This is another column in an occasional series about people in South Carolina who are making a difference.
About Birthdays
My family has never been one to make much ado about birthdays.