Reflections Of A Gasbag

I am watching the sun come up on this beautiful Saturday morning and it is hard to believe that we are in the midst of a global pandemic. Everything looks normal but our country right now is so abnormal. Spring is in the process of springing, flowers are blooming, birds are singing and I am…

Today is Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday. The start of Holy Week which starts today and last until April 11th. I always love the Easter season. This one however is unlike any we have ever experienced. A Easter where we will be left to our own devices as to how we will celebrate. I have…

So here we are. The crazy people are all around. We wonder why the government holds things from us? Now we know. For the life of me do not understand the toilet paper phenomenon. Granted there have been times that I would have paid ten dollars a square but this isn’t one of those times.…

So here we are. Pandemic 2020. If one thing we have learned through all of this is that people are f’ing crazy. Went to the grocery store yesterday to get some milk. Zero. Not even soy. That alone should tell us how whack people are. Now I know why the government is so secretive on…

Not only is today Friday the 13th but it is also my birthday. I have never been superstitious but as the great Michael Scott once said “I’m not superstitious, I’m just a little stitious”. I have had black cats, walked under ladders, been in the house with a open umbrella, knocked on wood and even…

So we had our volunteer banquet at the soup kitchen last night. We being Daily Bread Ministries. The Memorial Methodist Social Hall was packed with volunteers. I am amazed how far we have come since July 8th 1990 when The Greer Soup Kitchen served the first meal. Years later we started STEP (Shelter To Empower…

So I went to a funeral Sunday with my brother. My cousin Lindsay Pettus passed away. Lindsay was a big deal in Indian Land SC and Lindsay was also a big deal in Lancaster County SC which is where Indian Land is located. Lindsay was not one of those people that if you Google his…

The “Dump Months” are typically the months when Hollywood lowers commercial and critical expectations for most new releases. Audiences are smaller, the so called Christmas blockbusters are out so this is the time of year you get the movies that in screen testing didn’t fare so well. Although with the crap they release these days…

Not only are we welcoming a new year but also a new decade. 2019 is behind us and 2020 is in front of us. 2020…….Let’s marinate on that for awhile. My first reaction to the start of this new decade is am I going to live through this one. I’m not a young man. Me…

As I sit here in my office on this morning, full from the turkey, dressing, broccoli casserole and various other things that I stuffed in my mouth over Thanksgiving I realize it is time to turn the page. Christmas now is upon us. The decorations have started going up, nasty fruitcake is being baked and…