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You can’t control Mother Nature, but you can prepare for it
Hurricane season traditionally begins every year on June 1. Unless you are a hockey fan… in which case, ...
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Word facts that make you scratch your head
It’s easy to peer inside the pages of a dictionary to learn the definition of a word. Old ...
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Sports brings steps to success, no matter who wins
“It’s not whether you win or lose. It’s how you play the game.” This familiar phrase is attributed ...
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Names of local towns influenced by the railroad
Our latest Front Porch Living magazine, which is being released this week, carries a theme of how some ...
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Studying social media impact isn’t all that easy
Do we spend too much time staring at our screens? For many of us, the answer might be ...
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Friends are angels with the power to lift us up
Of the hundreds of emails I receive each and every week, there are, on rare occasions, one that ...
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Get ready: garden time is upon us
I have an online friend who lives in Australia that I chat with from time to time. Our ...
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Hey, mister, can you spare a dime?
What would you do with two million dimes? Feed a lot of parking meters…purchase gum or mints at ...
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From countries to counties: some tips on learning geography
Back in the day, a younger version of myself used to be really good at memorizing things. Of ...
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Stop…look….and listen to nature’s call
The North Carolina Birding Trail is a partnership project designed to establish a driving trail linking great birding ...
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The stories we tell our children
I like to think of myself as a storyteller at heart. I may not always be very good ...
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Pop…this column is for you!
There aren’t many days that go by without me stopping to think of my dad. Typically it’s to ...
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Some challenges resonate close to home and globally
It feels like one of those weeks when I just want to hear what else is happening around ...
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Offering a hand up…not a hand out
Habitat for Humanity ReStores are nonprofit home improvement stores and donation centers that sell new and gently used ...
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Try out a few reduplicative words for some fingle-fangle fun
The annual “Read Across America” day was celebrated earlier this month (on March 2 to be precise). It’s ...