I have limited recollection of my mother taking me by the hand when I was younger.
Published: May. 18, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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One of my cousins recently sent out a letter about our grandparents on my dad’s side, giving us some details from their lives.
Published: May. 14, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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I had forgotten about television star Pamela Anderson until she recently showed up in the news, last month, talking about turning 45.
Published: May. 11, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Spring, of course, is the season of renewal. It is also a stormy season. If you look around, you will find both signs of rebirth and significant challenges ahead.
Published: May. 11, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Seems it’s human nature to push a job onto someone else. Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer showed his mastery in the famous scene where he tricked his friends into painting his fence so he could go fishing. Throughout my life, I have experienced numerous instances of this ‘painting-the-fence’ phenomenon.
Published: May. 4, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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My View: At the edge of my grandfather’s garden lay a large, soil-filled area outlined with rocks. A very permanent raised bed, it was the animal graveyard. When a kitten or chick or puppy died, my grandmother gave the children a box and the five siblings picked flowers, assigned roles, rehearsed prayers, and then processed toward the garden cemetery, minister at the head, gravediggers in the rear, all of them singing “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand.”
Published: Apr. 30, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: There are times when a trip to the woods reveals a particular drama if you simply sit and take your time in one spot.
Published: Apr. 27, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
This isn’t the first time I’ve written here about getting old, and it probably won’t be the last. I’m getting old, for crying out loud! It’s traumatic!
Published: Apr. 24, 2013 11:35 AM | Full story
My View: Carolina Friends School students are learning through their partnership with a school in Afghanistan.
Published: Apr. 20, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: Plenty of times in my life I have come across someone who has a misconception of me. I’m unsure why, though.
Published: Apr. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: On school mornings, I often watch the long yellow bus pull up in front of my house and a cluster of backpacked elementary-age children hop on. For so many reasons, I’m glad I’m not one of them.
Published: Apr. 13, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: It’s hard to fathom that at 8 years old, my younger daughter could already be married in a developing country.
Published: Apr. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: I often feel that I am a self-appointed ambassador for women’s studies. When I signed up to become a professor, more than 20 years ago, I never thought that I’d have an elevator speech at the ready or become savvy about responding to misperceptions about my field of research and teaching. But I have.
Published: Apr. 6, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: In March 2010, with a little less than two months to go on my deployment, I was getting near the end of my rope. I’d been back in the closet for more than 14 months and in Iraq since July. I felt like a pot left on the stove too long, boiled down to a smoking, sullen, sarcastic crude.
Published: Apr. 2, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: I love quotations – from books, from speeches, from my husband, from wherever. Sometimes I will type something someone said or wrote into a list I keep on my computer called “Spice Quotes.”
Published: Mar. 30, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: When my mother was a girl, overnights with various aunts, uncles and grandparents were regular weekend events. Her family had lived in this same county since the turn of the 18th century, so everyone was related to each other even if they had no idea how. Upstairs bedrooms were filled with tall double beds, and children piled like pecan logs on top.
Published: Mar. 26, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: It started as an experiment: What happens when you equip a vibrant youth community with the resources to express themselves through hip hop and electronic music?
Published: Mar. 23, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: There are days in late winter when anyone with even a shred of common sense would choose to stay home and sit by the fireplace with a hot cup of tea, and a good novel.
Published: Mar. 19, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: As we noticed the changes in our surroundings, we also noticed how we were changing, mentally and physically.
Published: Mar. 12, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: The aides had just come in, as they did every two hours, to turn Dad over to his other boney haunch. The plan was to keep him off his bottom and the bedsores.
Published: Mar. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
The recent approval of the University Square redevelopment was a watershed moment for Franklin Street. It brought out the best in the Chapel Hill Town Council, underscoring its commitment to downtown’s revival. Unfortunately, it also brought out the worst in the approval process and at least some council members’ attitudes about business.
Published: Mar. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: About a year and a half ago I heard that a food co-op like Weaver Street Market had opened in downtown Burlington.
Published: Mar. 2, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: Men can be full of silences. I grew up in a family of men who didn’t talk much.
Published: Feb. 26, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: Every Tuesday night, I have a date with my 11-year-old daughter – and about 70 other people.
Published: Feb. 23, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: It’s twilight; a few minutes have passed since a pink-gold January sunset lit up the meadow. I am crouched by the side of the Mason Farm Reserve main trail, flashlight in hand, with camera set low on its tripod, waiting for the first “peents” to fill the air.
Published: Feb. 19, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: Today, Feb. 17, is Random Acts of Kindness Day. Surely one of the most fun days of the year, we should participate with abandon. Acts of kindness expand our capacity for creativity and nourish our souls.
Published: Feb. 16, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: The first thing I did upon coming home from college for winter break was go to the library. I hugged my parents, slapped my sisters briefly upside the head, and, as David Foster Wallace put it, “(got) in a taxi and (said), ‘The library, and step on it.’” Walking into the Chapel Hill Public Library finalized my return home.
Published: Feb. 12, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: During my youth I hadn’t met a person as prim and proper as Aunt Mary. As a matter of fact, it would take some thinking now to come up with someone as polished and proper as Julia Mary Francis Scarlett Jones.
Published: Feb. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
Commentary: The Town of Chapel Hill, once a beacon for anti-business sentiment, is trying a novel approach to attract entrepreneurs. It is becoming an entrepreneur itself.
Published: Feb. 9, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
My View: As I stare at the jagged stumps of once-towering pines and hardwoods – graceful trees that shaded the road from summer’s heat, offered privacy to the neighboring homes, and created a verdant barrier against the massive Ambulatory Care Center and its parking lots – I tell myself:
Published: Feb. 5, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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