Daily Archives: 12/05/2012
All those in favor of keeping the moon?
On The Way
By Olivia Fowler
Aren’t you glad they didn’t blow up the moon? I didn’t even know they ever thought of doing it until I heard it on NBC World News. Apparently there was a plan devised sometime during the ‘50s to send an atomic bomb to the moon to destroy it in order to make an impression on the Soviet Union to show how powerful America was.
This was back during the Cold War. The reasoning seems to have been that although the Russians got the cosmonauts into space, we would see to it that they didn’t reach the moon first by eliminating it as a possible destination.
What a brilliant plan. Someone actually thought of it. And had the audacity to suggest it in a meeting. I wonder how it was included on the agenda.
It probably came after the Pledge of Allegiance under New Business, Item A, listed as Plan to Blow Up Moon.
Picture this
All About Ben
By Ben Robinson
One of my bad habits came back to haunt me recently.
On Wednesdays I run a route delivering newspapers to stores so that they can sell the copies, people can be informed about their community, and most importantly, I can earn money for every stop, putting some distance between me and the poor house.
I generally never lock my car doors. For most of my life this has been because I knew that any self-respecting thief would be embarrassed to be seen snooping in my car. Somebody might think that’s their car after all.
“No, I don’t own this messy car,” the thief would probably say if one of his friends saw him. “I’m just stealing stuff.”
A math whiz I am not
Life as I KNow It
by Nicole Daughhetee
Considering my proclivity toward degree-seeking in the realms of higher education, one might think that I was always an excellent student.
To that I say pish-posh (in my best written British accent).
Last night for homework, Emerson, my third grader, had a math sheet focusing on geometry — specifically identifying right, acute and obtuse angles. Here I was thinking I would at least be able to help my children get through elementary school math.
I was not exposed to geometry until my freshman year in high school. Having done well in junior high pre-algebra and algebra, I was placed in an honors geometry course that ninth grade year. That, I believe, is the year when numbers turned into some mocking form of hieroglyphics that made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.
Courier Obits 12-5-12
Merilyn Reeves
Easley — Merilyn Delores Gillespie Reeves, 79, wife of the late Thomas Flynn Reeves, died Nov. 26, 2012, at Country Side Park Assisted Living.
Born in Easley, to the late Claude and Janie Dodgens Gillespie, Mrs. Reeves was a homemaker who enjoyed singing, and loved spending time with her family. She was member of Rock Springs Baptist Church.
She is survived by a son, Barry Reeves (Deborah) of Liberty; a daughter, Belinda Robson (Bill) of Easley; a brother, Fred Gillespie; a sister Earleen Harrison; six grandchildren, Keri Benjamin (Jeremy) of Dacusville, Kyle Reeves (Alexandria), Keith Reeves, Desmond Robson (Kimberly), Melissa Robson, and Emily Gordon, all of Easley; and four great-grandchildren, Cooper and Tanner Benjamin, Rylee Gordon, and Leighton Robson.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was predeceased by a brother, Alvin Gillespie; and two sisters, Connie Gustafson, and Bonnie Shephard.
Funeral services were 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Chapel of Robinson Funeral Home-Downtown. Burial followed in Westview Cemetery, in Easley.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Emeritus at Countryside, 125 Zion School Rd., Easley, SC 29642, or to Southern Care Hospice, 6000 Pelham Rd., Greenville, SC 29651.
Condolences may be expressed online at www.robinsonfuneralhomes.com or in person at Robinson Funeral Home-Downtown, which is assisting the family.
‘She’s still riding with me’
Life-changing wreck leads local ‘outlaw
biker’ down new path
By Nicole Daughhetee
Staff Reporter
One of the profound blessings of my job, aside from certain liberties and freedoms afforded me in my writing, is the opportunity I have to develop and investigate feature stories.
My interest in people has been cultivating for as long as I can recall. When I was younger, my mom and I would go to Aventura Mall on Saturdays, and as much as I enjoyed the girlie-girl aspect of shopping, I equally treasured quiet time spent sitting on a bench outside the food court people-watching.
People and their stories fascinate me. They always have, and I suspect they always will.
As many of my regular readers know, my passion for people and writing has transcended the Courier, as I continue to work on a book about the various personal stories and significances of people’s tattoos.
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