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August 6th, 2020 Greetings from Carrboro, Coors beer and croissants. That’s what my mother brought back from her first trip to San Francisco. The dinner table unveiling had the ceremonial air of Hemingway returning from a safari but with her 6-pack of stiff, slender cans of Coors replacing the water buffalo head. Later, she confessed to […]

Greetings from Carrboro, It was a land yacht caravan. Pulling out of Charlotte early on Saturday morning, the Gibson’s Oldsmobile carried all the coolers and bags of groceries and the sheets and towels and suitcases and, well, Mom and Mrs. Gibson. Our shiny new 1975 Buick Station Wagon was the party car with all six […]

Greetings from Carrboro, In life, it’s the little things that you remember. The grand gestures are often just too weighty to digest. And I knew that. Full stop. So I swore to myself that traveling in Europe with my daughters would be peppered with small, intimate moments to shape their memory of the proverbial Grand […]

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Greetings from Carrboro, Feel free to use your measuring stick of choice. 122 days. 19 trips to the ABC store “for friends.” 77 semi-breakdowns realizing at-home learning is a sinister Russian plot to unmoor what’s left of your shipwrecked sanity. You know. Whatever. But however you break it down, it’s clear that traditional calendars just […]

July 10, 2020 Greetings from Carrboro, Week after week he made the drive. All the way there and back. Lord knows how long it took. The van he drove was beleaguered and brown and the engine sounded as if just making it to Sanford would be a reach. But like clockwork he’d arrive. Late Friday […]

Greetings from Carrboro, We couldn’t order it for the restaurant. So I’d stop at the store and buy it, usually early in the morning or late at night after the shift. The “Valentina Salsa Picante” with the yellow label has a certain flavor that is a requirement for our summertime steak sauce. And for the longest […]

How cold could it really be? From my perspective the facts were pretty conclusive. #1, it was late July. #2, the sun was warm and bright. And #3, I was in a bathing suit. Therefore: go swimming. The day couldn’t be more beautiful. The floating dock that I was standing on rose and fell as […]

Greetings from Carrboro, It’s been nearly three months since we launched Carrboro United. As I’m sure is true for all of you, that morning in mid-March feels like a lifetime ago. Though we were terrified of what the pandemic might do to our businesses and community, Carrboro United was forged with a deep belief that we […]

Greetings from Carrboro, The handwritten signs didn’t help. I’d point and then pronunciate in awkward slowness, “chick – en?” Like that really helped. He always nodded encouragingly from the other side of the divide. And optimistically, I went along with our little practiced charade, mostly aware that I could have enunciated “wom-bat?” and received the same solicitous […]