Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
Entries by Roxanne Walker (356)
Surviving Senioritis
My only child is a senior in high school and I've found myself crying at unexpected times for many different reasons this year. I had tears in my eyes last Monday night during the awards ceremony for the Wade Hampton High School swim team. As he stood up to accept the coaches award for the second year in a row, it hit me that this is the last time my husband and I would be attending this end of the year ritual and it made me so sad. I was happy that we wouldn't have to drive to the Middle Tyger YMCA in Duncan at the end of a long work day to sit in a hot, in-door pool, waiting 3 or 4 hours to watch my son swim his events. But sad that I wouldn't get to cheer when he beat his best time or watched him goofing off with his buddies and cheering on the freshmen who looked up to him as their big brother.
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South Carolina's Token Liberal Blogger
My new nickname among my friends is Elizabeth. I acquired the name after my appearance on SC ETV during election night coverage when Sunny Phillips the self proclaimed 'crunchy Republican' repeatedly called me Elizabeth on the air. What a self absorbed bitch that woman was and is. She couldn't be bothered to learn my name because I was a liberal Democrat and as a GOP fund raising consultant I was of absolutely no use or importance to her so why would she even bother to learn my name? On the other hand the other election night blogger Joshua Gross of www.schotline.com couldn't have been more warm or welcoming. I really like him and the rest of the conservative guys at schotline. They post my blog on their conservative political website and actually seem interested in promoting a balanced political dialog...what a concept.
The Ballad of Ted Haggard/Evangelicals vs. Homosexuals
The story about The Reverend Ted Haggard's fall from grace has all the elements of a classic soap opera; sex, drugs, religion, politics and fame. For reporters and advertisers it's the kind of story that makes viewers tune in and people buy papers. The sad truth is it's also the kind of story that shatters people's lives and breaks their hearts. I'm especially haunted by the photo of Ted Haggard's wife and son that was printed in the New York Times on Saturday which seemed to illustrate the heartache. Haggard is sitting on the right hand side of the photo in the driver's seat of the family car, a boom microphone is thrust through the passenger window just in front of Haggard's wife and just behind Haggard is his pre-pubescent son. Both mother and son look strained and one can only imagine what they are thinking at that moment as news reporters swarm their car in the family driveway. Just a few days ago they were a seemingly perfect nuclear family of five children, a mom and a dad, living a normal life that is if normal means your dad tends to a flock of 12,000 church members and leads the National Association of Evangelicals. Then suddenly, a man stepped forward to accuse the head of this seemingly perfect household of paying him for gay sex and drugs over a three-year period. Everything these children and this woman once knew now seemed to be a lie.