Flight of the Gooney Bird The N.C. Transportation Museum works to restore the Potomac Peacemaker By Billy Ingram In January’s O.Henry magazine, there’s a brief oral history of the glory [...]
A New Year, A New Me By Jim Dodson Reprinted from the January 2013 edition of PineStraw magazine. Two winters ago, while visiting for the holidays, my daughter, Maggie, made a point of asking me [...]
We Believe in Greensboro Remembering a radio icon of Christmas past By Billy Eye He said slip on anything and come on down. So she slipped on the top stair. — Bob Poole Like most everyone in [...]
Saying Goodbye, for Now By Jim Dodson Reprinted with permission by PineStraw Magazine. When I was young, the only thing harder than the coming of Christmas was saying goodbye to it. After weeks [...]
Limp Excuse Finding a Good Story for a Bad Knee By Jim Dodson I’ve been limping along with a bum knee for exactly six months. One thing I’ve discovered — the painful way — is that I’m not a [...]
Saying Grace is Our Saving Grace By Jim Dodson In our house, saying grace at Thanksgiving — anytime, really — is something of a cosmic adventure. Like Forest Gump’s box of chocolate, you never [...]
Embracing Juno The tarot reading — and tattoo — that changed my life By Corrinne Rosquillo In 2018, I visited New Orleans for the first time. It’s a magical city, full of history and an old [...]
Once in a Lullaby Tales from the real Land of Oz By Billy Eye Last month, when Wicked blew through town, I was reminded of my own trip over the rainbow to the actual Land of Oz. Perhaps you [...]
The View From a Begrudging Service Human By Jim Dodson Someone once told me the key to a long and happy life is understanding why you’re on this earth. I used to think it was to write books and [...]
The Roadshow Spending Time and Miles on the Backroads By Jim Dodson Owing to heavy end-of-summer traffic, I took several back roads on a recent trip from Wilmington to Greensboro, and then [...]
