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About that moon – what do you believe?
Channeling Ole’ Blue Eyes, “It was a very good year.” My daughter Gina was born in February. Working in the Greensboro, N.C. office of a major bank, I was transferred to the headquarters in Charlotte that year. If you want to move ahead in a large corporation you need to be seen by the bigwigs. I was and did. The Woodstock Music Festival was held with a reported 500,000 rock music fans. I have always contended there was no way to be sure ho...
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Real life experiences show reasons for Relay
Relay for Life is rescheduled for May 24 at Fairfield Central High School. As I drove into the office this morning, I started thinking about the ways cancer has touched my life in the past week. Maybe sharing those different experiences will help spur folks on as they work on our Fairfield County Relay for Life. Last November, I wrote a column for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. The column was about my grandmother, Peggy, and how she had...
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Annual Read-In a success
As the Community Services Librarian at the Fairfield County Library, I would like to express how wonderful this year’s annual Read-In was. It is definitely an honor and a privilege to assist with this great reading initiative. Not only was there remarkable support expressed by teachers and parents, but the entire community showed their continued support of the promotion of literacy. I want to express how appreciative I am for all the communit...
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Thanks to Fairfield Memorial ER staff
On April 22, 2013, I had to be rushed to Fairfield Memorial Hospital due to heart failure, erratic heart beat, which had already dropped to only 30 beats per minute. I was getting ready to flat line and leave this world as I have known it. However, the E.R. doctor, Dr. Foster and the great nursing staff saw otherwise. What a team effort, what highly skilled people that were working in the E.R. that night. The E.R. doctor and nurses are a sk...
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Bravo to the classes of 2013
Congratulations to the graduating Class of 2013! From early May through mid-June, graduates will have the good fortune (some would say misfortune) of receiving a lot of advice and hearing even more speeches. I would love to be able to tell graduates the secrets to financial success, marital bliss and wisdom beyond belief, but let’s be realistic – most of the graduates wouldn’t hear it or read it if it were made available. I simply would like ...
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Readin’, writin’ and Washington? You’d be surprised
At a recent town hall meeting with Congressman Mick Mulvaney, I heard logic that only makes sense if it comes out of Washington. The one nugget I’m pulling out to discuss concerns a basic part of the legislative process, reading and writing. During the town hall meeting as Mulvaney mentioned his voting record, he cautioned audience members that a “no” vote by him on an issue did not always mean he was opposed to the issue. Mulvaney said t...
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Graveyards can tell a lot about a community
Drifting away from my hard and fast rule to not use “I” early in an article and never start with it: “I like cemeteries.” He-he! When I don’t have to deal with the reason a cemetery exists, the loss of a loved one, the cemeteries can be very interesting places. When traveling I often visit the local cemeteries. About 15 years ago in my first article I wrote about a cemetery in Cedar Key, Fla., an island chain in the Gulf. With Cedar Key’s h...
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The Boston bombings: What if it happened here?
Like their fellow Americans across the country, South Carolinians were horrified at the recent Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three people and injured dozens of others. Here at home, our heartfelt prayers went out to the victims and their families as a difficult question hangs over our state. It’s a question none of us wants to imagine, but we must: What if it happened here? I have no doubt that our own law enforcement agencies ...
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How would you define your 10-year day?
Tinsley Ellis is a blues singer out of Atlanta. On his “Hell or High Water” CD, there is a song called “Ten Year Day.” It is actually a love song. The premise being that a person in love could get 10 years worth of living in one day. Borrowing slightly from Newton’s law of “Equal and Opposite,” conversely we can have a 10 year day of bad stuff. There was such a day on Monday in Boston at the Marathon. That day will likely become one of th...
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