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Greetings from Carrboro, It was like the man couldn’t hear me. His baffled expression melted my grown-up facade of coat and tie and proper professional seriousness – I had a briefcase! So I said it again, louder, standing tall in hopes of exuding street smarts. “Bagel with cream cheese and coffee with cream.” Then less […]

Greetings from Carrboro, There’s “Sentinel.” And “Gazette.” “Observer” is clearly popular in these parts. But I must be honest, any culture that had a newspaper named after garlic mayo wins my heart. No question. I get the sense that their collective priorities are in righteous order. With our modern media mania, it’s rather hard to imagine […]

Greetings from Carrboro, I stood, slack-jawed, and pointed. The guy working with me looked up and squinted in the bright sun, “oh, that’s a whale.” Just like that – as if he were pointing out a 2015 Hyundai. His practiced deadpan nonchalance was clearly intended to signal the superiority of his “native” status – shaka, […]

Greetings from Carrboro, No one’s going to stop you. I hope you know that. The decision to wholeheartedly put the “Labor” in Labor Day is completely your call. Certainly all of us agree that it’s barrels o’ fun to shop for groceries on a holiday weekend – especially in 2020. And even more fun to […]

Greetings from Carrboro, The first time I swung a pickaxe to break up the ground, it bounced. Hardscrabble would have been a generous description – 75 years as a parking lot is not an ideal history for arable soil. But my belligerent youth eventually overcame any semblance of intelligent self-care and after close to six hours of […]

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 […]

Register to vote North Carolina residents may use this form to register to vote or to update their name, address or party affiliation. Mail the signed form to your county board of elections office. Click here to find the mailing address of your county board of elections office. DMV customers may register to vote or update their registrations (except name […]

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 […]