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The last meeting of the semester of the Working Group in Feminism and History was a blast. We met at Laura Edwards' house, with Marcie...

The Talking Moose used to say (among other things) "I had a dream last night, and you were in it." Night before last, I had a viv...

Morgan Creek Walk Warm April breezes winnowing chaff from tree buds littering the road. --by our neighbor Marsha Jepsen More poems .

This will sound like betrayal. It isn't. Really. I love my Mac. I have loved all four of my Macs. My first was an SE circa 1990. Before ...

To my five or six readers: my computer is in the shop getting a new hard drive. It won't be back till early next week. I'm going to ...

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake, my blog entry of 12/14/04 : THE YEAR was 1906, and the citizens of San ...

The trouble is, the Chatham County Commissioners think they do have the right to pray to Jesus. By letter, the ACLU of North Carolina remin...

Laura Moore and I went on the Chapel Hill Spring Garden Tour yesterday. We got to our first stop promptly, at 10 a.m. We were so early, som...

Peeps on Earth. Bonus: an interview with a pontiff who does not pontificate .

Naturally, I read every word of the Times' lengthy obit on William Sloane Coffin, Jr., reflecting on his long life of conscientious res...

I don't even think about them till June, but tonight, somewhere just before or after our herd of deer could be heard moving across the b...

A new study from Tufts University suggests that mixed-race juries in criminal trials do a more careful and thorough job of deliberating tha...

We've had many conversations in our house about North Carolina's peculiar naming conventions. Ed Cone issues the definitive stateme...

Congratulations to Allan Gurganus of Hillsborough for his 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship --awarded on promise of a novel in the works.

We never really knew our neighbor Roger Hannay , who died in January. It was our loss, but some compensation was to be had this afternoon. F...

When Barrie Oblinger bought a run-down, almost-hundred-year-old house near his own home in Mebane to restore and resell, he didn't know ...

We know Tony Avent's Plant Delights as a delightful nursery well worth the drive out to southeastern Wake County (even at the risk of g...

I had no idea. In England, barristers and judges still wear wigs ! "Some people think it gives them more authority," Baldwin said ...

I had this idea that there was something special about the level of scrutiny that Chapel Hillians give to development projects--the amount o...

The Chapel Hill News this Sunday reported a conversation at the local assembly of county governments meeting about the problem of waste dis...