Nesting Season There’s no place like home By Susan Campbell It is almost that time again for our feathered friends: nesting season. Pairs of birds will team up to bring forth the next generation. [...]
We Know Great Writing When We See It Since 1986, the Moore County Writers’ Competition has promoted and honored superior writing throughout our communities. Join the awards ceremony where [...]
The Right Track On the trail with Charles Frazier By Wiley Cash Photographs By Mallory Cash The first time I met Charles Frazier was in Asheville back in the spring of 2016. Along with several [...]
Courage and Candor Daniel Wallace’s thought-provoking memoir By Stephen E. Smith If you read the promo material for Daniel Wallace’s new memoir, This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a [...]
The Land of Pods What’s old is new again By Deborah Salomon Until recently, I knew pods only from the English peas growing in Granddaddy’s garden . . . and tent-like enclosures E.T. might take [...]
Remembering Wild Places And finding a project for spring By Tom Bryant “So what a man has got to do is take a little time off as he grows older, and devote the waste space to remembering [...]
Ice Cream Parlor The woman has a gold stud through her tongue, her companion a snarling tiger tattooed on his neck. They hover over cups of Crazy Vanilla and Chunky Chocolate as she describes the [...]
Pisces (February 19 – March 20) Einstein was a Pisces. While it’s true the German physicist struggled to remember his own birthday — “It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is [...]
A Little Stuffed Potato Wisdom Lessons from full-grown tater tots By Jim Dodson Someone once said to me that it’s not happiness that makes one grateful, but gratitude that makes one happy. [...]
March is a born artist, wide-eyed and unbridled, creating for the sake of life itself. The genius begins with a single daffodil, warm and bright, nodding in a stream of honeyed light. Each [...]
