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In Memory of My Friend’s Mother

Posted by Staff | Jul 15, 2011 | Uncategorized

How to Help Your Child, At Any Age, Comfort Someone? Yesterday I picked some Queen Anne’s Laces alongside the road for a friend whose dying mother believes her bed sheets are made of lace. “They are so soft, so beautiful,” she...

The Power of Rice

Posted by Staff | Jul 14, 2011 | Uncategorized

Rice — and An Opportunity for Your Child to Volunteer Did you know that one cup of rice can relieve hunger? Get your kids to take a bag or two of rice to the local food pantry based in Carrboro. It’s located at the...

Give a Compliment, Throw a Party and Propose – That is How you Get a Job.

Posted by Staff | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized

Give 10 compliments a day. It may surprise you to learn that even in our worst economics times there are millions of people who would like the opportunity to live and work in the United States. To them this is still a land of...

What Animal Does Your Child Want to Be?

Posted by Staff | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized

Beetles. I’m guessing beetles. My four-year-old gets them and I get the goose bumps if I don’t get to her first. She’s like a mad scientist, with her swim goggles, messy hair, flipping over rocks in her search for beetles....

Fiction tells the truth about North Carolina’s changing rural landscape

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 12, 2011 | D.G. Martin

We have changed. More urban. Less rural and farming. At least that is what the latest Census is telling us. But the story is more complicated. It is more interesting, too. Out in the formerly all-rural counties of our state, new...

Community Potluck at Johnny's!

Posted by Staff | Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized

Like many readers in Chapelboro, I relocated here from NYC in the not too distant past. When visitors from the Big Apple make the effort to visit me during the summer months to escape the city, I make the effort to show them the...

Short and Simple Skin Care Tips for Men

Posted by Staff | Jul 8, 2011 | Uncategorized

Think skin care is only important to women? Not in today’s world. More men are discovering the benefits of good skincare, but I have found that most men do not want to spend much time nor a lot of steps applying products. Men...

Zumba…OMG!

Posted by Staff | Jul 5, 2011 | Uncategorized

Am I the last person in the Triangle to participate in “The Original Fitness-Party” better know as Zumba? I actually took my first Zumba class two weeks ago and loved it. In my class there was a mix of ages from 20...

More help for farm fresh food eaters

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 5, 2011 | D.G. Martin

Last week I introduced you to two authors of new food books that celebrate the joys of preparing and eating fresh farm food in season. In that column I wrote about Andrea Reusing’s “Cooking In The Moment: A Year of Seasonal...

You Can Call Him Jones

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized

A few things you may not know about the new radio Voice of the Tar Heels: His proper name is Monrovie Jones Angell, IV. That’s on par with Forest Orion Mixon, III, which is Mick’s official moniker, and a lot more eccentric than...

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