Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.

The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner of words and phrases, some helpful, some not. Still, we are conditioned to say something, even if it is only 'I am sorry for your loss.' But for an absence, for someone who was never there at all, we are wordless to capture that particular emptiness. For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent, ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?

I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.