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 […]
Acme on the Patio OPEN FRIDAY!
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 […]
Old School San Fran Staycation
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 […]
Find your beach
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 […]
The dinner bells are ringing
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 […]
DECISIONS ARE MADE BY THOSE WHO SHOW UP!
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19th Annual Acme Tomato Festival
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 […]
Viva Mexico! Viva Carrboro!
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 […]
Tilting at windmills. Or are those churros…?
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 […]
Lobstuhs and buttuh
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 […]
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