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Journey of a Lifetime Fond memories of our hometown golf tournament   By Bailey Jordan This month the Wyndham Championship returns to Greensboro. Founded in 1938 as the Greater Greensboro [...]

Lordy, Leo! Sun-ruled lions enter a creative phase By Astrid Stellanova Star Children like Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Affleck, J.Lo and former President Barack Obama just go to prove that Leos have [...]

By Ash Alder Heat, ma’am! It was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. — Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir Berry Good If [...]

Kathy Green’s garden of spirited delights By Cynthia Adams   •   Photographs By Amy Freeman Ask anyone their idea of the perfect summer cocktail, and more often than not, the whisper of the [...]

Famous banned book covers artfully reimagined Featuring Thomas Boatwright, Margaret Baxter, Ray Martin and Harry Blair   The first summer I went away to Boy Scout camp at age 11, I took an [...]

Fiction by Jill McCorkle   Your husband is cheating on us. I’m assuming that he hasn’t told you yet. I’m the test wife and he tries everything out on me first, I mean everything. Remember [...]

Fiction by Lee Smith I come here to be touched. I want the lotion, the rubbing, the smoothing, the stroking, the pressing, the kneading fingers, the touch on my toes and feet and legs and hands [...]

Wild Words I’ll not read poetry at bedtime anymore — those wild words gang up, go roaming in my head, jump synapses, gathering speed, picking up more of their kind, bringing little phrases to the [...]

Saturday Night Fever Remembering the summer of ’77 in the Gate City     By Billy Eye “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster [...]

Brew-birds of Happiness A haven for hummingbirds at Red Oak Brewery   By Susan Campbell When I listened to the phone message, it was from a gentleman at a brewery of all places! He was [...]