What Next?
By Bill Shepard The old year is history, and a brand new year is beckoning for us to follow. Life moves us in one direction only, forward, always forward! A backward glance can remind us where we have been, but what lies ahead is a dark path! In some of my predictions, I have said that if life follows any kind of pattern we can expect a lot more of what we have experienced in the past twelve months. In short, the year ahead will be...
Gov. Haley and the heat of the national spotlight
It’s the call that every aspirant in the political hinterland dreams of: “Will you give our party’s response to the State of the Union Address?”
Dealing with my clutter
By Bill Shepard What to keep and what to throw away is my dilemma. It is not an easy problem for me. I suppose that I am too sentimental! Lines from one of Kenny Rogers old songs just played in my mind, “When to hold ‘em, when to fold ‘em, when to walk away…” I am tempted to just walk away and leave my clutter for others to deal with, but that would not be the right thing to do. Everyone that lives as long as I have lived collects a...
Why pageants?
By Chelsea Bullock Miss South Carolina Sweet Potato Festival 2015 “Why pageants? Do you not find it demeaning to prance around a stage in a swimsuit? Do you watch Toddlers and Tiaras, or Honey Boo Boo? Gosh, did you use an entire can of hairspray to get that hair fixed that way?” Granted, I do love my hairspray, but pageants are much more than some of the comments I receive from those unfamiliar to everything The Miss South Carolina...
The little store that was: Part 2
By Bill Shepard The Little Store That Was amd the Old Man That Was…I do not know why memories of the old man keep tugging at me! Could it be that they have been silent so long and are wanting to be heard? Last week, I shared some of those memories about the man and his little store which I belived to be the first self-service grocery store in Darlington! I am aware that few folk reading my column remember that far back, and more...
Saving Lives, Computers and Guns
Back in the late 1990s, my company developed the first Internet strategy for the Ministry of Health in Australia.