Bird on a Wire Meet “the other bluebird,” the indigo bunting By Susan Campbell “What, what? See it, see it! Here, here!!” Where? It’s a bird: high up on a power line singing incessantly, [...]
Minus social dates, many folks updated their digs during COVID-19 closures By Maria Johnson • Photographs by Amy Freeman Every time one door closes during a pandemic, another [...]
Seven local chefs serve up easy-to-prepare courses for seasonal eating By Maria Johnson Feeling the heat of summer? It’s a good time to head for the kitchen and KISS: Keep It Small and [...]
The Stolen Flower Child Love, loss and living things By Jim Dodson On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a clear spring morning in my tiny corner of the planet, I was out early planting a [...]
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Area artists serve up a smorgasbord of food-inspired works We eat with our eyes, the old maxim goes. For visual artists, truer words were never spoken. And what better muse for the visual [...]
Fantasy houses near and far By Cynthia Adams Illustration by Harry Blair When I asked a wise and close friend who had just bought a townhouse whether she’s found her dream house, she [...]
An Honest Day’s Storytelling Finding truth in Lee Smith’s fiction and nonfiction By D.G. Martin Some North Carolina writers say that it is easier for them to tell the truth in fiction than [...]
A Dirty Little Secret Navigating the plant-emic By Maria Johnson It started as a joke. Sort of. Faced with lots of time together this past spring, my husband and I decided to build a [...]
By Ash Alder June is the ink that flows from the poet’s pen — sweet as gardenia and ephemeral as a dream; the fountain of everlasting passion. If ever you have read the love letters from [...]
