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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It’s one of those texts you don’t want to get, and I got three of them in just over a month’s time. Somebody fell. Not your casual pop right back up kind of tumble, but the serious kind. The sort that can be, and in one case was, fatal.
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In the last week, there has been an amazing flurry of illegality flowing from the Trump Administration. Amazing – not in the good way.
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I first learned the name Renée Nicole Macklin Good because of her brutal killing on January 7, 2026. I want to remember her as a talented poet.
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While the first half of North Carolina’s 2025-26 basketball season showcased a fun variety of exceptional new talents, highlight-reel moments and résumé-building victories, it also raised some fair questions about the team’s down-the-stretch potential.
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The past two weeks my radio shows have begun outlining the ways political leaders will serve us better when they integrate into their governance and policy making the creative and entrepreneurial ideas and concepts I have collected in my new book ‘Common Ground for US’, due out in early June.
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Often attributed to Mark Twain — perhaps mistakenly, since no historical source shows he actually...
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My office, and all the items in it, have a story to tell. I sit at former Treasurer Harlan Boyles’ desk – it reminds me of the legacy of stewardship of our state’s finances that I must live up to.
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This Just In — If your family gatherings over the holidays were anything at all like mine, well …...
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After my parents were revealed as the tooth fairy and Santa Claus, I still held the belief that the ocean was inside a conch shell, even when I pressed my ear to the shell back at home in Raleigh.
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