Lifestyle

Beth Morris Nance: All about the love and memories

By Beth Morris Nance Every day at the N.C. Museum of Dolls, Toys and Miniatures in Spencer is ...

Lifestyle

Dr. Magryta: A common and scary event

Choking is a common and scary event that plays out in the homes of some parents of infants ...

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Doug Creamer: Reunions

The faculty at East Davidson had a nice party for the two retiring teachers at East this year. ...

David Freeze

David Freeze: Tasting gravel on a freshly paved road

Most days, as I’ve mentioned, have some good things and a few bad things. Last Monday was up ...

Lifestyle

Ann Farabee: The lion

     Be sober. Be vigilant. We have an enemy — the devil. He is as a ...

Lifestyle

Roger Barbee: Thurman’s normal

In his 1949 book, “Jesus and the Disinherited,” Pastor Howard Thurman writes “Most of the accepted social behavior-patterns ...

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Jeff Long: community service

It seems today that every time I open a newspaper or turn on the TV, there’s some kind ...

David Freeze

David Freeze: Bears, wildlife ahead on the Cassiar Highway

It looks like I am just going to have to deal with the wind. It was howling when ...

David Freeze

David Freeze: Motel owners offer symbolic spike from Pacific Railway

When preparing to leave the Bon Voyage Motel on Saturday morning in Prince George, Canada, I had an ...

David Freeze

David Freeze: An expected wind plays havoc with a long day

Wednesday was plenty windy itself, and the weather forecasters called for an even gustier wind straight out of ...

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Mack Williams: ‘1969ers’

Recently, Facebook posts about the up-and-coming 50th reunion of the East Rowan Senior High Class of 1969 started ...

Columns

Dr. Magryta: Empathy vs sympathy vs compassion

Let us look at the principles of being present in the moment with another during the healing process. ...

Columns

David Freeze: Gotta Run

It was probably late summer when I met Deborah Carter at the Forum. I knew she ran very ...

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Darrell Blackwelder: This gentle pollinator does not sting

Kristin’s dad was looking at his butterfly bush this week and noticed something unusual flying slowly around the ...

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Doug creamer: I did it

Last Tuesday was my last day of my last year as a full-time school teacher. That’s right, I ...

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Ann Farabee: Blessed

 Beatitude. Beatitude. Beatitude. Say that three times really fast. Something about that word never got my proper ...

Columns

David Freeze: A shorter day allows for time to address communication issues

After yet another late night, this one in 100 Mile House, Canada, I was tired of email and ...

David Freeze

David Freeze: Rest stop on Day 15 brings meeting with another long-distance rider

Yet another headwind, but also some hail and a good soaking. I didn’t expect a long day Tuesday. ...

David Freeze

David Freeze: Brutal headwind, long day bring reminder of good things

Some days on these trips, I just think I have reached my limit. How much more could a ...

Columns

‘No reason to get snippy’: Freeze crosses into Canada

Saturday was a day of high anticipation. I was ready to get into Canada. The night had been ...

Columns

David Freeze: Day 11 brings trip within four miles of border crossing

Friday morning was the one day on the whole trip that I started riding in short sleeves. A ...

Columns

Mack Williams: Singing with Ray

It’s been ages since Ray Hayes and I sang a duet at church, 30 years or so, not ...

Lifestyle

Darrell Blackwelder: Tree of Heaven turns out to be the opposite

You may have noticed tropical-like trees in full bloom on the edge of wooded areas, fields or roadsides. ...

Columns

Dr. Magryta: Constipation, part 2

Constipation or functional acquired megacolon is a disorder that has as its hallmark an enlarged and poorly functional ...

Lifestyle

Kent Bernhardt: We need each other

My neighbors had some large trees removed from their yard recently, and I watched nervously from my den ...

Lifestyle

Doug Creamer: To the Class of 2019

            I went to my 34th graduation as a teacher. In the 18 years I have been at ...

Columns

Ann Farabee: Summer homework?

   Summertime…. and the living is easy. Unless your child has SUMMER HOMEWORK! During that last week ...

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Rogber Barbee: Chickadees and Christian

Yesterday morning while cleaning the yard of pine cones and sticks, I heard a clattering that appeared to ...

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