“You are only as good as your word.” Many of us teach this concept to our kids, across different languages and cultures. Because when you break promises, the person or group you made the promise to is going to feel disrespected and have a difficult time trusting you again.
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The North Carolina General Assembly recently allocated state funds to build a monument and statue that will honor the evangelist Billy Graham on the grounds of the state’s historic capitol building in Raleigh.
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I can discuss investment portfolios, interest rates and pension liabilities for longer than most people would consider healthy. But if you open the hood of a car and ask me what I am looking at, I will confidently say “the engine” and hope you change the subject.
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September is Preparedness Month in North Carolina, a time to remind ourselves that being ready for a natural disaster happens long before a storm is on the horizon.
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I don’t believe I am alone in concluding that the Belichick experiment has been an unequivocal failure. In the last year and a half with him as head coach, UNC has suffered one scandal after another, more than every other coaching staff in UNC’s history combined.
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I met Gloria Steinem once, for about 15 seconds at a book signing in Chapel Hill, probably 30 years ago. Remarkable to me was that she wasn’t the 10 foot tall presence that I imagined.
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My wife and I celebrated 19 years of marriage this week. Wendell Berry, the writer-farmer from Kentucky, passed away on Monday after 69 years of marriage to his wife, Tanya.
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Heading into the team’s 2025 opener against TCU, Belichick and most of his staff had spent only about eight months around a large majority of their players, then had an incredibly short window to prepare the 20 transfers they added after the spring semester.
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In this week’s show our guest, Bradley McDevitt, spends time talking about the importance of our bodies in our creative growth and performance.
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This Just In — The English had their Shakespeare. The Italians had DaVinci. We, thankfully, had Dolly.
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