North Carolina Mountain Articles

Garrison picked a good example of Horace’s writings. I find it a prayer I could also recite on a daily basis… On this day in 8 B.C., the Roman poet Horace died (books by this…

Colleen does it again…She takes me to where I need to be on this the day before I return to the grind. She starts it thus… A good book. A lounge chair. The sun makes…

I have been reading a new blog. Kelly Harmon is a Peace Corps Volunteer in Moldova. I love the way she looks at life and the slightly twisted way she writes. If you have a minute…

Since they selected him to run the country it’s only fitting that they figure out what to do with him when he doesn’t. Time for a little accountability on the part of some black robed non-members of the…

One of the nice things about the internet is the way you stumble upon the…the unexpected gem. One of the news feeds that I have been subscribed to for a few weeks is Cool Tools…

IN 1789, CONGRESS requested of George Washington that the young nation’s first president, as he put it, “recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer.” The grand traditions…

Today’s walk wasn’t near as cold as yesterdays. It also was different in that I didn’t take my camera. I started of at the Bayou watching the sun come up over the trees. I stood…

Do you know what I love about Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology? It puts you on a different path of thought. You don’t have to buy into anything, do anything or be anything other than…

It was about 12:30 p.m. on this day in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. It was the only successful assassination of an American…

 I am sure once upon a time every newspaper had a Leon Hale. Now I doubt there are many like him left. He has been a columnist in the Houston papers since before I was…

Another page turns in the local history books… It’s reputed to be the world’s first drive-through restaurant chain and the place where the onion ring was invented, the result of a cooking accident. In 82…

OK, I don’t know how these might work out but the premise is right with me so I’ll “Bite”. I’ll let you know what I think…Or jump on over and try them yourself… We know that…

Being weight challenged these days this article caught my eye since it says something I tend to think is probably true in a number of ways.  The idea that we’re too fat because we eat…