July’s End Signals Turn Toward Fall By Jim Dodson Last year at this time, I told to my wife that next year I planned to spend the month of July either sitting in a volcanic fumarole [...]
Summer Evenings By Jim Dodson The best part of any summer day is evening. As the light expires and the heat of day yields to the cool of night, a kind of magic realism takes possession of the [...]
‘Hurricane Jimmy’ Loses Steam, Gains Insight By Jim Dodson When I was a teenager, somewhere back in the late 1960s, I asked my Grandmother Taylor if she was afraid of dying. After [...]
Where the Mild Things Are By Jim Dodson These midsummer mornings are the ones I like best, the last cool, wet mornings in my garden before dawn, when plants are at their peak and months of toil [...]
Hat Trick Donning — and Doffing — the Right Topper By Jim Dodson The other afternoon, as the skies darkened and the winds sharpened their bite, I slipped into Belk in search of a belt and came [...]
Walter’s Wallet By Jim Dodson Not long ago, while cleaning out a desk drawer I should have cleaned out years ago, I found a simple but beautifully made full-grain leather breast pocket [...]
Let the Good Times Roll Music and other delights you ought to know about By Billy Eye With downtown rebounding, here are some good times Eye wanted to share with you. Local musical legend Matty [...]
Real Talk with Nurse Jaekle Chasing science with a shot of art By Maria Johnson Until earlier this year, it had been about 15 years since registered nurse Beth Jaekle had stuck a needle in [...]
10 Things to Tell the Graduates By Cassie Bustamante Stay out of the sun. Although a golden glow might make you feel sportier, shinier, sexier, you are not a car. You’ll thank me when you’re not [...]
Mommie Dearest Joan Crawford in Greensboro . . . near Mother’s Day, of course By Billy Eye It began innocently enough. Eleven-year old Chester Arnold Jr. was gifted 5 shares of Pepsi common [...]
