Category: North Carolina

Leon Hale has a story from his childhood that tells it like it was in rural Texas. It starts like this… When the family gets together we sometimes retell the story of Uncle Billy Crockett’s camera and the famous pictures he took. The story has been retold so often that Uncle Billy himself might not recognize it. But this is

I see from my email forecast that we can expect a second day of sunshine before we go back to trying to live up to Seattle’s weather rep. It has rained (or so it seems from this side of memory) for the majority of the days in January. I guess we are making up for all of those beautiful blue

I managed to sit through the President’s address last evening without throwing anything at the television harder than a few epitaphs, the strongest of which was probably “You damn liar”. One of the things I can not understand at all is the deficit. How can the President claim to have cut the deficit in half when it’s higher this year than last? Am

 Ok folks, this starts out strange but stay for the full thing. It’s worth the time… I don’t know about you, but I’m with George W on this one: It’s time for surge! The link above is the audio, the link below is the transcript. Jim Hightower is one of the last outspoken progressive ex-elected officials from Texas. Source: Jim

Call me a cynic, but any plan from this president to address the healthcare/insurance problem in the country is pretty much a non-starter for me. I have spent most of my adult life being insurance poor. By that I mean, insurance has always been a priority, even when it meant having less for everything else. Car insurance, home insurance, health insurance…Even credit

 My God you have to love the Internet today. Call me uneducated, nonliterary, a boor, but until a few months back I had never read (that I recall) Verlyn Klinkenborg. Then I came across a quote from “The Rural Life” on one of the blogs I read regularly (I am sorry to say I can’t be certain which). That led me

 For a long time now I have been on the mailing list for the Blue Mountain Center “Thought for the Day”. Each and every morning the email is in my inbox. Each and every morning I open the message and read the passage. Some mornings I sit and ,dare I say, meditate on the thoughts expressed in the quote and

Pablo over at The Roundrock Journal has a post up that taught me a new word – inosculation.His photos reminded me of a photo I took last fall in Fulton, Texas. When we were touring the Fulton Mansion the guide suggested we drive by a house a few blocks in from the coast. There in a live oak tree was

In time for the frosty nights across the country Leon Hale writes this in this morning’s Houston Chronicle. Warm toes Sleeping with the feet on a hot brick is a familiar custom to me. It was based on the theory that if you keep your feet warm, you’ll stay warm all over. I once thought that all families everywhere slept

Good Morning, Pardon me while I pour my first cup of coffee…Ahhhh, that’s better. I see from my morning email from the My-Cast Weather Center that the country’s climate model is turned upside down again this morning. The temperature here is 35 as I type this which is a few degrees above the forecasted low for last night. And there