Curiously Amanda

Although employment protections are in place to prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, gender, age and disability, employment protections for LGBT nationally or statewide are nonexistent.

Recently, I covered a controversial texting ban ordinance purposed at last week’s Greer Council meeting. I, myself, sometimes text, play music from my phone and talk on my phone while driving, and though my car has Bluetooth and talk-to-text capabilities, I still recognize the potential dangers of it.

I’ve been lucky in life. I’ve never lost my home, been without clothes or wanted for food, but this isn’t the case for many.

Recently, I caught myself beginning to buy into the mass media propaganda that, with enough aging cream and hair dye, I can stay young looking forever. It all began a few months ago when I found my first gray hair. I won’t lie, I melted into a slight panic attack as I teared up and yelled profanities into the bathroom mirror.

I’ve heard it hundreds of times, and it continues to disappoint: “Why should we keep helping people in other countries when we have people right here in America who need help?” I think people fail to realize that in many instances, the few people who are the worst off in our own communities have more access to assistance and services than the ma

I’ve been playing with the idea of love in my head.

Love at first sight is cliché and, when mentioned, I assumed it was always in a romantic context only existing in movies. My convictions on love at first sight were shattered the second I met Benjamin, my nephew, for the first time Wednesday.

A common occurrence in the newsroom — more often than readers probably realize — is calculated choosing of adjectives in headlines and body copy.

Many may believe kindness is a rarity, even forgetting to take moments to be kind because of the hurried lives we lead, but acts of kindness are more common than we sometimes realize.