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April 20th, 2026 Greetings from Carrboro, I don’t know if a rom-com has ever won an Oscar. But I seriously doubt it. Just as I doubt that Emily in Paris is going to win an Emmy anytime soon. Or either will, you know, Outer Banks. Of course that’s not that I’ve personally ever watched them, […]

April 16th, 2026 Greetings from Carrboro, It’s easy to rationalize. The list of the pros and cons surrounding most fateful choices usually aligns with the decision we’ve already made. Discerning divine providence and some degree of self-congratulatory wisdom are deeply preferred to looking back with any hint that we might have screwed up. And where […]

March 31st, 2026   Greetings from Carrboro, My mother was claustrophobic. Not clinically, but serious enough that she could only handle going up five floors on an elevator at a time. And I always assumed that her proclivity to spend all of her free time outside was similarly rooted in that profound aversion to feeling […]

March 10th, 2026 Greetings from Carrboro, It would be impossible. I think we can agree that if you ask any Beatles fan to name the best five songs and they will laugh at you. Similarly, if you asked my eldest to do the same for Taylor Swift, there would be equal amounts of eye-rolling derision, […]

March 4th, 2026 Greetings from Carrboro, I was born into it. So, don’t blame me. My father was the radio announcer for Carolina basketball and football in the 1960s. Needless to say, our entire family were rabid fans. And if you were wondering, yes, we hated Billy Packer. Basketball mania was so bad in our […]

Greetings from Carrboro, I was arms-crossed confident arguing with my best friend. The ramshackle restaurants that dotted the road near Douglas Airport did not have roofs. Period. His father told him that I was wrong. I fully admitted that because of the possibility of rain (or cold or heat), the why didn’t completely make sense. But in my corner, […]

Greetings from Carrboro, I had Boy Scouts every Tuesday night. 7:30 – 9:00. We learned how to tie knots and bandage burns and then skinned our knees playing ultimate frisbee in the brightly lit parking lot of St. Vincent’s Church where our meetings were held. And, tragically, that meant we missed Happy Days. Skipping Laverne & Shirley was […]

February 10th, 2026 Greetings from Carrboro, It’s remarkable. The newest airpods can translate several major languages directly to English in real time, right in your ear. No more phrase books or suffering through the terribly awkward realization that occurs 15 minutes after you randomly ordered the tête de veau for lunch in Lyon. But just like the Navajo […]

Greetings from Carrboro, Any event where feather boas are encouraged deserves our attention. Because you just don’t wear them to any old gathering. And it’s not some line in the sand that changes month to month. There is never a time where it’s fashionable to festoon yourself with a jewel-toned boa at some nephew’s baptism […]

Greetings from Carrboro, They’re sneaky bastards, these snowpocalypses. Who knew they could change so fast? Last weekend was like going to the movies to see a film with The Rock and when you sat down in the theater, it turned out to be a rock musical rendition of Wuthering Heights. In period costumery. Not to […]