This Just In: An American Original
This Just In — The English had their Shakespeare. The Italians had DaVinci. We, thankfully, had Dolly.
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Columns
Little Big Moments: Miracle of The Pumpkins
Last Sunday, I was weeding along my backyard fence and discovered two pumpkin vines! (That is a sentence that deserves an exclamation point.) Initially, I thought they were squash plants.
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Holding Court: Belichick’s Second UNC Campaign Must Show Improvement, Stability
In the early 1990s, Stanford University hired a legendary National Football League head coach with three Super Bowl rings. That Bill Walsh experiment got off to a fantastic start — a 10-3 campaign and a top-10 national finish in 1992 — but Walsh retired at the end of the 1994 season, at 63 years old, after his next two Cardinal teams stumbled to 4-7 and 3-7-1 records.
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The South Orange Dispatch: 2 Decades of Teaching CPR
SORS has evolved its training programs, including CPR, to increase the availability of and access to health services and care — an important factor in reducing harmful social determinants of health and health inequities.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: A Little Generosity Goes a Long Way
When I think about everyday creativity I think about being generous with the inches and minutes of daily life. My experience and my study have taught me there is a wonderful creative energy released through our generous behaviors — an energy that serves you and others.
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Viewpoints: On the Feeding of Deer
Hi Neighbors! I want to share my thoughts on something that’s been going on in the area for years – the feeding of deer.
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Never Too Far: Stephen A. Smith Is Talking, but Is He Listening?
Let me begin here: I respect Stephen A. Smith. I respect his work ethic, his remarkable career, and his ability to build a powerful media platform.
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The Governor’s Column: New Notebooks, New Beginnings
As families across North Carolina fill shopping carts with binders and fresh boxes of crayons, another school year is just around the corner. As a dad of three graduates of North Carolina public schools, I have fond memories of back-to-school shopping together: debating backpack colors and making sure everyone had exactly what they needed for the first day.
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This Just In: Back to School
This Just In — I really must avoid Walmart at this time of year. It’s muscle memory, reflex, whatever you want to call it, but I cannot pass up a sale on pencils and pens and notebooks of every variety. Come to think of it, do I have enough graph paper?
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Little Big Moments: Hero Dad
Wednesday afternoon, I took my three kids back-to-school shopping. Three separate women in the store exclaimed that I was “a hero.” How did they know my secret identity?
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