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Dear Reader: Yesterday I ran across a humorous, but also poignant, commentary on how we treat the pizza deliverer…because it tells a lot about our own character. I have had many after school and part-time jobs from the age of … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: My love affair with Eva’s Restaurant began in 1975 when I was pregnant with my first child, Mandy. The annual pre-season Summerville High School football camp, in Laurinburg, NC, was underway and I was due any day. So … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: It is time to bring the wonderful Clemson football season to a close…yesterday I carefully packed up all the magazines, lucky tokens, newspaper clippings, tiger rags and other Clemson shirts/caps, scarves, and carefully packed them away until football … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Since I live alone I have had several well-intentioned folks, over the years, ask me if I were not lonely living alone or afraid. I smile, shake my head, and reply “Neither…for most of the time I love … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: It’s hard to believe that the day has finally arrived that Clemson fans, players, families, and coaches have dreamed about for a long time…decades in fact. I have enjoyed reading all the newspaper articles and watching the sports … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I, sometimes, have to laugh at humanity for making life so much more complicated than God ever intended. Here we were given a beautiful world, a paradise, and all we had to do to maintain it was simply … Continue reading →

              Dear Reader: Anne Lamotte tells the following Indian fable: I often remember the story from India of a beggar who sat outside a temple, begging for just enough every day to keep body … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Frederick Buecher once said; “The story of one of us is the story of us all.” (If I am telling a story and I begin to notice people in the audience nodding their heads and smiling…then I smile … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: The ancients, like us modern folks, loved nothing more than to throw their heads back and revel in a starry night and the vastness of the universe, as they knew it, in wonder. I spent many a childhood … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: At first glance the bare-limbed Bradford Pear, in my front yard, might appear “bleak” but if you take a moment longer to study it, you will find a bright surprise…there is one red leaf still left on the … Continue reading →