My 17-year-old daughter has been around a fair bit this summer. We have been doing college visits, vacationing and generally hanging out.
Published: Aug. 16, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Summer evenings at dusk I sit on the patio and watch chimney swifts circling overhead before they dive into my chimney. Every year in April they migrate from Central America, raise their young in the chimney, and head back to Central America in late
Published: Aug. 12, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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The Frances Lloyd Shetley Bikeway exemplifies what is best about bikeways/greenways in Carrboro, and the Piedmont Wildflower Meadow demonstrates what a bikeway/greenway can become when the community invests time and energy to make it blossom!
Published: Aug. 10, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
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I write this, my first column, on an anniversary. One year ago I learned I had not defied death after all. Seven months after finishing chemotherapy, I had cancer again.
Published: Aug. 5, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Standing in the shadow of big Pharma, represented by GlaxoSmithKline, Quintiles and medical school giants Duke and UNC, is a small phalanx of community healers. Acharan Narula, Suki Roth and Will Endres don't have MD after their names, but they all a
Published: Aug. 2, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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MY VIEW: Sometimes I feel like the kid in the movie "Bubble Boy." | Not in that I don't have an immune system -- I do, and generally it works pretty well -- but in that, when I'm at school in Chapel Hill, I often feel I'm living inside a v
Published: Jul. 29, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: Raleigh didn't raise property taxes for next year. Neither did Wake County, nor Cary, nor Apex, nor the City of Durham, nor Durham County.
Published: Jul. 26, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: I live in nervous fear. Each night I lie awake, trying to wrap my brain around what I have to do in the coming week, where I have to go, and what I have to say.
Published: Jul. 19, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: "That's not the most becoming skirt," my mother said the other day. "It looks a bit, well, snug." Mother couldn't at that moment come right out and say what was on her mind, but she did later.
Published: Jul. 15, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: A chinaberry tree stood in my grandmother's front yard. Its limbs spread upward but the foilage drooped down. The children called it the umbrella tree. They were just tall enough to grab hold of its bottom branches, swinging and sailing loose into th
Published: Jul. 12, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: Maybe these are strange times. Or perhaps things are the same as they ever were. Those of us attempting to escort North Carolina into a low-carbon future are curiosities. We are both loved and despised.
Published: Jul. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: One of my favorite cities is Savannah and almost every time I go I visit the Bonaventure Cemetery, stopping by to visit "The Bird Girl," the statue that is on the cover of the book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." There are m
Published: Jul. 6, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: It is now 10 a.m. Nasar and crew of "I Love New York Pizza" are ready for the lunch crowd, hoping for a busy day, bringing their American dreams that much closer.
Published: Jul. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: The sign on a friend's refrigerator said, "Eat to Live, Don't Live to Eat." Generally a good rule to live by, but there are those few days in life when I'm so glad that I've lived to that day so I can eat.
Published: Jun. 29, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: My neighbor says she has a sickness. She's obsessed with rearranging and redecorating her home. My husband and I fondly call it "Pottery Barn" because everything always looks beautifully decorated and in place -- not like our own home with
Published: Jun. 24, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: When I was an undergraduate at the City College of New York, my father pushed me to major in business even though I was much more attracted to the humanities. I loved history, English and psychology.
Published: Jun. 22, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: The night I met John Hope Franklin, two amazing things happened. First, my wife sent me a text message informing me our young son went to the potty for the first time. Second, the now late historian gave me some of the most important advice I have ev
Published: Jun. 17, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: The other night our daughter was cleaning out her closet. She brought a stack of books out to the living room. Books bought her first day of high school. Books that had hardly been opened. How could we know that no teacher would ever collect the home
Published: Jun. 15, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: "The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order ... the continuous thread of revelation." -- Eudora Welty
Published: Jun. 15, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: Recently I signed up for a short course at the Integrative Health Center of Chapel Hill. I've used the Center before, for medical consultations, nutritional advice and complementary therapies, but this was a little different. My goal was to understan
Published: Jun. 10, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: In times such as these, the plight of homeless companion animals is most worrisome. How can their circumstances not worsen as local governments tighten belts in the face of economic pressures? Yet despite these circumstances remarkably little is said
Published: Jun. 3, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
"Moonshine is just never a good idea." She paused. "Never."
Published: Jun. 1, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: On Sept. 11, 2001, two things happened. A Carrboro activist stapled an organizational meeting flier to a bulletin board in Chapel Hill to begin the creation of a new local currency. And as she was doing so she heard that a plane had flown into an off
Published: May. 27, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: The Town of Chapel Hill, UNC students and the residents who live in the apartments and homes on the northbound side of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard have been fortunate. Let's hope their luck will continue until the problem is eventually overcome.
Published: May. 24, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: The journey from standing tree to finished piece of furniture, lumber or toothpicks seems straightforward enough. Making the connection locally seems like it should be simple. Man chops down tree, drags it to a sawmill, then another buys that and mak
Published: May. 20, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: You've heard of the slow food movement -- the movement that counteracts fast food and fast life.
Published: May. 18, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: I went to the new Durham Performing Arts Center to see the Broadway show "Rent" with 10 of my friends on Jan. 24 . It was an awesome experience. It's wonderful to have a Mecca of cultural events within an easy drive of our community.
Published: May. 13, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: Certain Carrboro landmarks are so woven into the fabric of this community that it would be difficult to imagine our town without them: The Farmer's Market, for example, where I stroll in a circle early on Saturday mornings, stopping to visit with far
Published: May. 11, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
MY VIEW: Borrow against the future and spend now. Let rising values pay your obligations. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Then the bubble burst.
Published: May. 6, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
We are Kate Minogue and Alexa Phillips. We are 14-year-old eighth graders from Culbreth Middle School.
Published: May. 4, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
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