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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 […]

Yes, yes, I know. We clutch our pearls and manically buy bread and milk at the first mention of icy precipitation; it’s a southern thing. We also don’t shovel our walkways or own snow blowers or have any idea how to cross-country ski. We just ain’t snow bunnies. Period. Primarily because when it does actually […]

Greetings from Carrboro, It took a fire extinguisher. A friend’s grandmother turned 90-something and the family made a big to-do. Someone had the festive idea to put 90 candles in the giant cake as a kind-of grand finale. I have no idea how they lit that many, but they did. Or, exactly, how they imagined […]

Greetings from Carrboro, You’d think I was Timothy Chalamet. The emails just gush with praise. Day after day there are numerous entreaties to have lunch or coffee. And each ooze with such a keen awareness of the obvious fact that successful entrepreneurs like me are super, super busy. This barrage of AI affection has definitely reached a […]

Greetings from Carrboro, There weren’t many options. It basically came down to a very short list: cowboy, pirate, astronaut, or caveman. For Halloween my mother did not approve of the cool-kid superhero costumes with their plastic masks and flimsy capes or any get-up that was not strictly G-rated. Year over year, “wholesome” would have been […]

Greetings from Carrboro, You really shouldn’t do the math. Trust me. As someone who inevitably falls for the alluring trap that is DIY, I speak, let’s just say, from experience. Because while it’s true that, yes, you can put your faith in the internet and retile your bathroom, the successful outcome is not  – I repeat, not – […]

Greetings from Carrboro, Yesterday, I saw a woman wearing a scarf. This on what was clearly the hottest day of the past month. My neck itched just looking at her. But on some level, I got it. I mean, the calendar does say fall, dammit. So, come on; cue the leaves and woodsmoke and crisp evening air. […]