by don | Apr 2, 2014
Despite last week’s chill and blustery snow, we are in the throes of spring migration. Actually migration never stops. There is a bird somewhere on its way to somewhere else every month of the year. Purple martins have reached Florida by January. In June around the...
by don | Mar 5, 2014
People say the corporate world has no soul. Corporations don’t give a rat’s behind about their employees especially after they’re gone. And the flip side is employees are just there to get a paycheck. They do what it takes and if they’re lucky they have a job that...
by don | Feb 19, 2014
A river of burnt umber flows every year from southern Canada through the U.S. to the oyamel fir forests in the mountains west of Mexico City. This river tumbles along in a kind of bubbly joy reserved for kids, fairies, hermits, counterfeit curmudgeons and anyone whose...
by don | Feb 6, 2014
No better way to celebrate a big thaw than an impromptu field trip. We rounded up kids, friends and friends’ kids and headed for the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville. Our first stop at the Arboretum was the Baker Exhibit Center. Denise had checked online before...
by don | Jan 30, 2014
In my youth never did a B-western movie make it to the end without the bad guy being cornered and denounced for the “yellow-bellied sapsucker” he was. Yellow-belly and/or yellow-bellied has for various etymological reasons been associated with cowardice. Sapsucker, I...
by don | Jan 23, 2014
I mentioned the fact a couple of weeks ago (Jan. 1 – “Time to rejoin the “battle outside”) that NC House Bill 74 the Regulatory Reform Act of 2013 was set to begin the process of reviewing – readopting and/or repealing all state rules and that the first rules under...
