Playing in the Dirt: Winter Landscapes
A winter landscape can seem stark and muted. But look carefully and you’ll find beauty: Curves of tree limbs and zig-zags of twigs that are hidden by foliage in warm seasons.
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Columns
This Just In: Snowpocolypse 2 — This Time It’s Personal
This Just In —No, really, it’s going to snow this weekend. If you feel like Charlie Brown lining up to kick that football while Lucy gets ready for the snap and snatch, you have to ask yourself why Charlie Brown never just gets right to it and kicks Lucy instead?
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Little Big Moments: On Heroism
For several mornings, I have slipped downstairs while the rest of my family was still asleep and fixed coffee to the sound of the dripping faucet. We left it running to prevent the pipes from freezing. Drip, drip, drip—it sounds like a clicking metronome.
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Holding Court: Belichick’s Pro Football HOF Snub Leaves Sports World Exasperated
Bill Belichick’s parents were originally from the Cleveland area, about a one-hour drive from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Beyond the Veil
This week’s episode of Exploring your Creative Genius had Dr. Raymond Moody as our guest. Dr. Moody is the pioneer in the field of near-death experience (NDE). In fact, he coined the phrase in his ground breaking book, published in 1975, ‘Life after Life.’
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Refugium: How To Identify Trees in Winter
As I’ve noted more than once, being able to name the plants around you is kind of a superpower. At the very least, it allows one to enjoy a deeper level of kinship with the other living things that share one’s living space.
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This Just In: Snowpocalypse Now
I’m from New England. We take winter storms seriously. Spend a week in a freezing house without running water, trees breaking off and crashing in the yard all around you (very dangerous) and only masonry fireplaces to warm yourself and you’ll appreciate a warm can of beans, too.
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Little Big Moments: Words of Peace
The woman exclaimed, “This is dope!” I would typically not associate such an exclamation of praise with standing on a bridge over Highway 421 in the cold, while squinting into the dusk at approaching police lights.
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Holding Court: Basketball Fortunes Of UNC, ACC Tied To Sensational Freshman Class
The Atlantic Coast Conference has produced an absolutely sensational and highly impactful freshman class, led by a high-profile pair of former prep All-Americans in Duke forward Cameron Boozer and UNC forward Caleb Wilson and also including a handful of other fantastic first-year standouts.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: Sleep, Dreams and Creativity
A few years back I stumbled upon a story about the technique the artist Salvador Dali used to capture the benefits, at the beginning of sleep, of the liminal mind, when the woke mind is drifting into a new and imaginative world.
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