February 2023

Cutting Corners A quicker way to homemade croissants Story and Photograph by Rose Shewey The ink on my freshly issued driver’s license hadn’t dried yet when four of my friends and I piled into my [...]

Just Working Antoine Williams forged his own path to bring his art to light By Liza Roberts Left: There Will Be No Miracles Here, printed material and acrylic on wood panel, 2021     Antoine [...]

The champions of Moore County By Tom Lillie   •   Photographs by John Gessner This and above Photograph: Turkey oak (Quercus laevis) Moore County has what it takes to produce champions. The [...]

Using technology to defeat poachers in Kruger National Park By Jim Moriarty Photographs courtesy of Tough Stump Technologies One of them is called Kokwane and the other is Nyeleti. They’re not [...]

A Hardwood Homily A gym is no place for badminton By Bill Fields I don’t look back on my days in the Southern Pines school gymnasium without angst. There were some miserable moments in physical [...]

FICTION The Woman with the Cure, by Lynn Cullen In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, [...]

The Nose Knows Sniffing down memory lane By Deborah Salomon Mmmmm — something sure does smell good. That’s because the holidays extending from late January to late February maintain food links: [...]

Pick Your Poison Everyone needs a go-to By Lee Pace Pick one: Beach or mountains? Charcoal or gas? Dog or cat? Coke or Pepsi? Thin crust or thick? Sweet tea or unsweet? Forged or cast? Draw or [...]

spring and some the woman coming toward me wears a red cape. she smiles she likes my red hat and she says so. the temperature is dropping rapidly, the wind is rising. they had predicted rain and [...]

Design by Keith Borshak The assignment was simple. Well, maybe not so simple. Write a love story in 100 words or less. As the old saying (often attributed to Mark Twain, because if we don’t know [...]