September Books FICTION Amazing Grace Adams, by Fran Littlewood Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is 45, perimenopausal and stalled — the unhappiest age you can be, according [...]
Stayin’ Alive Souljam, a band based in Vero Beach, Florida, will perform with Jamie Monroe as the opening act at Live After 5 from 5:15 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 8, at the Village [...]
Lines to a Toad in a Rose Garden You’re all eyes, even on the back of your head and warty as a road. Brown as the ground beneath roses. Roses red as song, pink as a whistle, yellow as whiskey and [...]
Squirrelly Business A seedy family of rodents drives an old dude nuts By Jim Dodson Another summer is ending. And once again, the squirrels have won. Last year about this time, you see, I made a [...]
Virgo (August 3 – September ) While there’s a part of you that longs to feel understood, let’s be honest: Your deadpan nature thrills you to your overly guarded core. Following a messy few weeks [...]
September is the last stand of sunflowers — thick with bumbles and honeys — wistfully facing east. Sown in the softest days of summer, when early berries fairly tumbled from their vines, the [...]
Straying Inland The great egret pays a visit By Susan Campbell ’Tis the season of odd sightings: Birds are wandering in all directions. After breeding and ahead of fall migration, it is not [...]
Fall Follies By Jim Moriarty Are you ready for some football? The question is rhetorical, of course. Until February it will be our reality. I spent roughly two decades working for the Sports [...]
Eight Ball Reinvigorating a tribute By Lee Pace In recent years the buzz about the Pinehurst Resort has swirled around the world-renowned No. 2 course and its designation as an “anchor site” for [...]
