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Confessions of a Second hand Joe By Jim Dodson On a fine spring afternoon recently, I dropped by the office on the way home from a local garden center — part of a rare day off that I was spending [...]

Special days with the Purvis boys By Bill Fields A couple of times a year there would be a letter or a phone call, and the countdown would begin. When the arrival was imminent, antsy with [...]

Letting a house speak for itself By Deborah Salomon   •   Photographs by John Gessner and from The Tufts Archives If only the walls could talk. We can. We walls surround a house now surrounded by [...]

Chasing fish — and a bit of warmth By Tom Bryant Snowbird (person) — Wikipedia A snowbird is a person who moves from the higher latitudes and colder climates of the northern United States and [...]

When the deep freeze finishes By Jan Wheaton I don’t love to garden. The same way I don’t love to write. But my garden beckons to me the same way an empty, white page does: Put something here. I [...]

A little slice of wine, cheese and life By Robyn James A little over 20 years ago, I was an on-premise sales rep for a large North Carolina wine distributor. I sold wine to wine and cheese shops [...]

There’s never a dull moment in Aries-land By Astrid Stellanova Oh, the famously maddening, cuh-razy-making Ram! Famous Arians include maniacs like Hitler (OK, OK, der Fürher was actually born on [...]

Waiting for the other shoe (and temperature) to drop — as April comes (way) early to the Sandhills By Jan Leitschuh Are you a betting man, or woman, as the case may be? Though no psychic, I [...]

The PGA Tour goes to the beach By Lee Pace It was a cold February day in 1997, give or take a year as memories fade, and five men were sloshing through the woods and sandy waste of a parcel of [...]

Crook’s Corner Bar & Café honors a terrific debut novel By D.G. Martin More than a thousand books connected to North Carolina are published each year. There is no way to read them all or even [...]