The day after watching a rerun of Jim Carey going nuts in the Grinch’s big screen debut, we are standing amidst a rare November...

Avocadoes are apparently among the most cherished of vegetables, if something with a fat content higher than beef can be called a...

Anytime you are faced with a story that begins in the bathroom you have to suspect that it might be exceedingly odd, perhaps even a tad...

A long work week ended late last Friday with the Road Gods bestowing upon us weary car dwellers one final gift in the form of a large...

(Watching the problems in Atlanta last week reminded me of a similar event several years ago in Raleigh) We in central North Carolina...

(about 10 years ago; the great ice storm came to North Carolina) I’m not sure which of the original sins we unintentionally violated, but...

I spent seven years of my life in Singapore, the island-state just south of the Malay Peninsula and just north of the equator. Singapore...

In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps...

The Desert Phoenix Arizona was constructed on the desert, displacing millions of lizards and tumbleweeds and leaving them homeless. You...

Sunrise Jam I had totally forgotten about the phenomena of Daylight Saving Time (DST). DST requires that clocks in your very home be...

(I have been writing for some time on our lives in North Carolina…) Buy Me According to the radio — that purveyor of all knowledge and...

(I had an opportunity to visit New Orleans a few years before Katrina. These are my recollections at the time. In looking back some of...