The Kitchen Garden
Hot Time One last rush of fall peppers By Jan Leitschuh Pepper abundance time is now. Take advantage. Enjoy October’s cooler weather, after this summer’s scalding sweat bath. Pepper plants revel [...]
Papadaddy’s Mindfield
Humor Me These are difficult times. More reason than ever to ease up and have a good laugh By Clyde Edgerton In a small town stands a stucco building with two signs out front, one large, one [...]
True South
The Child Files Kids say, well, whatever pops into their blessedly sweet heads By Susan S. Kelly Whenever “the world is too much with us,” as William Wordsworth so prettily put it, or current [...]
Almanac
On mornings such as this — brisk, charged — the mourning doves that line the city wires suddenly take to the air, 50 or more of them in pastel twilight, swirling in wide, graceful circles as if [...]
Golftown Journal
Finding Peace The many pleasures of walking a golf course By Lee Pace During the last week of August, I turned over to the editors at UNC Press my manuscript of 60,000 words and flash drive of [...]
Out of the Blue
Thinking Inside the Box The strength in the things that remain By Deborah Salomon Generally speaking, I’m not a sentimentalist. I’ve kept hundreds of photos, a drawerful of greeting cards (most [...]
Drinking with Writers
The Third Person Project In search of a buried and forgotten past By Wiley Cash • Photographs by Mallory Cash As his 2011 essay collection Pulphead makes clear, John Jeremiah Sullivan [...]
Bookshelf
October Books FICTION Cilka’s Journey, by Heather Morris Author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz returns with a novel about beautiful Cilka, who is 16 years old and forcibly separated from the other [...]
Poem
Butterfly Effect Chaos Theory revisited A flash of yellow flits across my window Then another and another Cloudless sulphur butterflies winging their way once again to southern warmth. Do they [...]
A Page Out of History
The greatness of Walter Hines Page By Bill Case The presidential election of 1916 was a close thing. Had Republican challenger Charles Evans Hughes carried California, a state he lost by a mere [...]