In the South, we say that if snow stays for five days, it’s waiting for more. The maxim proved true over the weekend. While my neighborhood received less snow than other parts of the Tar Heel State, my kids had enough to go sledding and make a snow fairy — a miniature snow woman with pine needles as a skirt and a crown of red berries.
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If the Tar Heels continue to grow, thrive and win over this next month or so, they will head to the ACC Tournament in Charlotte in mid-March with lots of confidence and as one of the favorites for the ACC championship, an achievement that has eluded Carolina for almost a full decade (2016) at this point.
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Two ideas that were least popular with my students over the 14 years I taught creativity and entrepreneurship to Duke undergrads were Humility and Making your Way vs Finding your Path.
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2026 marks 250 years since the United States was founded. Across North Carolina, communities are marking America 250, or A250, by lifting up the ideals and the people who have shaped our democracy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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