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The Brownie Effect A treat with a tasty purpose By Deborah Salomon Please don’t take this recipe as an affront to PineStraw’s excellent food columnists — proponents, like myself, of healthy [...]

From the Podium A few words from an award-winning mom By Renee Whitmore My son, Kevin, just told me I was the meanest mom in the world. I made him ride his bike for 30 minutes before he could [...]

Spring cleaning and decluttering in the Sandhills By Jan Leitschuh You never get enough ’cause there’s just too much stuff — Too Much Stuff, by Delbert McClinton In my Wisconsin childhood, the [...]

Purple Reign For birdwatchers, the return of the purple martin marks the true arrival of spring By Susan Campbell For many bird enthusiasts, it is not truly spring until purple martins return. [...]

A Chin Scratcher Stuck in the era of the presidential close shave By Scott Sheffield Whither hast thou gone, presidential whiskers? No American president has sported facial hair of any kind since [...]

Parade of Champions Come walk the fairways with the legends of the game in the second United States Senior Women’s Open Championship played May 16-19 at the Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club in [...]

Blood Memory Five friends and a meal to remember By Wiley Cash   •   Photographs by Mallory Cash In his first poetry collection, 1998’s Eureka Mill, Ron Rash writes about the connection he feels [...]

May Books FICTION Tears of the Trufflepig, by Fernando A. Flores This debut novel weaves in ancient myth, foodie culture and a modern Hunter S. Thompson-like journalist on the hunt for truth. [...]

Here’s to the Bs A supplement for a healthy life By Karen Frye Author and nutritionist Adelle Davis believed that through a healthy diet and taking the right supplements for your body, you could [...]