Holding Court: Few Carolina Football Coaches Have Started Strongly in ACC Era
When legendary gridiron leader Bill Belichick takes the field for the first time as North Carolina’s head coach, he almost certainly will be an underdog.
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Columns
Exploring Your Creative Genius: Fables, Resonance and Life Lessons
Fables are stories that distill complex truths into simple, memorable narratives. By using animals or everyday objects as characters, they bypass moralizing and allow listeners or readers to uncover lessons organically.
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One on One: The Gordian Knots of Families and Politics
Nobody’s going to argue when I say that our country is in a complicated place these days. You can feel it in the news, around the dinner table, even in the grocery store line.
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Little Big Moments: Sunflower Prayer
Last Friday, Ginny and I took our kids to Raleigh and the Sunflower Field at Dorothea Dix Park. Although we had planned to arrive as the fiery ball set in the sky, it was still hot and humid.
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Exploring Your Creative Genius: There’s Magic in Solving Your Own Problem
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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One on One: Dip’s Closes Doors, but the Joy Continues
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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Your Neighbor: Prolific Arts Require Plentiful Resources
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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Little Big Moments: Holy Goose
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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Holding Court: Humbling Reminders for UNC Football
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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Small Business, Big Lessons® — What Is Your Limit?
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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