There’s something electric about entrepreneurs who build businesses born from personal struggle. They don’t just understand the problem — they’ve lived it, cursed it, and finally cracked it.
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Mildred Council was tall as a child and she had the job of using her long arms to dip into the rain barrel for water, earning her nickname, “Dip.” She started cooking when she was ten, “cooking the corn when the corn came in” and frying chicken “as a form of love.”
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If artists aren’t making art, then we’re forfeiting our wholeness as humans and denying ourselves the privilege to enhance the cultural welfare of our communities. Artists deserve to choose where to live, where to create.
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The yard sign stuck in a neighbor’s mulch prohibits “tres-pooping” and is aimed at the trespassing dogs (not Spanish-speaking ones). However, the most egregious scatological sinners are the Canada geese (Branta canadensis).
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There has been a lot of excitement — and understandably so — surrounding North Carolina football since the Tar Heels’ headline-grabbing hiring of six-time Super Bowl champion head coach Bill Belichick in December.
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Getting to know yourself and your limits is extremely important. Like a frog in a pot of water that slowly starts to simmer and finally boils them. Not knowing your limits can have a similar effect.
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In our last show Beth Yerxa, founder and executive direction of Triangle Art Works, shared the important ways her organization helps artists commercialize their work — increasingly throughout the region.
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What would be on your to-do list on a trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park? During the summer in and around the park, you might take in a dramatic sunset, hike to a waterfall, cool off in a river in a kayak, or catch a trout in a pristine stream.
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Andrea Gibson died on July 14. I admired their poetry, most especially their bravery to accept their mortality after learning of their terminal ovarian cancer.
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Last week’s show was a bit of an amalgam. Adam Kershner was the guest for the first segment, introducing Oasis, a cool new product radically simplifying your organization of content you are using to get your work done.
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