D.G. Martin, Author at Chapelboro.com

Celebrating George Washington's failures

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 20, 2012 | D.G. Martin

George Washington was a failure. But that is not the reason we do not celebrate his birthday (February 22) anymore, unless you count Monday’s President’s Day. Washington’s failures are not the reason there are no more cherry...

Gen Zers – your Social Security may depend on them

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 13, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Gen Z, I thought to myself, what in the world is that? Because it was the theme of the annual Emerging Issues Forum in Raleigh last week, I knew I was behind the times. Just so you will not be so far behind, here are some...

My coach did not spit on anybody's hand

Posted by D.G. Martin | Feb 6, 2012 | D.G. Martin

It is too bad that sports reporters and historians at Atlantic Coast Conference headquarters are not reading “ACC Basketball.” This UNC Press book by Sam Walker was published last year and chronicles the game during...

Opening ever so slightly

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 30, 2012 | D.G. Martin

It is the kind of surprise for which every ambitious politician must be prepared: the unexpected decision by an incumbent elected official to retire. It is, my friend Jay Rivers told me, the kind of window of opportunity that...

Does time heal all wounds?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 23, 2012 | D.G. Martin

Will John Edwards someday be the new Newt Gingrich? Where did this crazy question come from? To get the answer, read on. First, we should wrestle with the questions political experts have been stuttering over since Gingrich’s...

Learning about North Carolina from a Favorite Mystery Writer

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 16, 2012 | D.G. Martin

What is the best book I could read to learn about North Carolina? I get this question all the time from people who know about my interest in books about our state and those written by our great writers. My answer differs,...

Replacing elections with lotteries

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 9, 2012 | D.G. Martin

There has to be a better way. Some of us reached that conclusion after discussing the mess our congressional and legislative governing systems have come to. Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government...

Following Daniel Boone to the west

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jan 3, 2012 | D.G. Martin

First there was Daniel Boone. Boone’s real exploits on America’s frontier made him a legend in a new country whose people were ever pushing westward, driving the boundaries of their nation to the Pacific and beyond. The history...

Who Teaches us How To Live – And Die?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 27, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Alzheimer’s. Just the word scares you to death, doesn’t it? A few years ago, I saw an article that described and gave examples of a new mental test that can make a very reliable preliminary diagnosis of early onset...

One more year of believing

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 19, 2011 | D.G. Martin

What does my brief appearance last month on stage in “The Murphey School Radio Show” have to do with Christmas memories? It is a little bit of a long story, starting with the confession that for a long time I wanted to be a...

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