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Not enough Alf to go around at lunchtime
Few childhood memories endure a lifetime. Most fade, as do the years, conceding to newer, arguably more noteworthy experiences. Yet occasionally, a childhood marvel maintains a permanent place in ...
Aug 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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No oil can for this Tin Man
In this world, there are very few folks who enjoy the self-imposed torment my elderly kinfolk call “taking the exercise.” Admittedly, I’m among the mass majority that doesn’t experience euphoria w...
Aug 23, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bambi gets no love from these apple mavens
These days, there’s a battle going on between deer and man – or should I say woman – just down Route 1 in Epsom. It’s not fought with the firing blasts of rifles, since the four-legged foe both ad...
Aug 23, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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School supply drive needs donations
Many of us assume that when school starts, children will report to class with pencils, notebooks, and all the other items necessary to succeed. But unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Child...
Aug 20, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Views on a Southern ‘slice’ of life
My first tomato sandwich debate dates back to 2006, during my two-year employment at Wake Forest’s Heritage Golf Club. It was then, as I cruised the drought-parched greens on my beverage cart – da...
Aug 09, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tippy, the not-so-friendly ghost cat
It was just last week, as I yawned “good evening” to bedtime’s approach, that I crawled into the line-dried sheets that draped across my mattress. A nearby floor fan hummed a noisy lullaby as it w...
Aug 04, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Storyteller stands as tall as the mountains
Some say the mountains tell a story. They claim the tales of earth’s evolution — likewise mankind’s metamorphosis — are ensconced in the rolling, oftentimes rigid terrain of Mother Nature. That th...
Aug 04, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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A new meaning to the term ‘food fight’
Perhaps it was the Dairy Queen ice cream cake, with its crunchy dark chocolate cookie filling encased in creamy layers of ice cream and covered in a sweet concoction of whipped frosting? Or maybe ...
Jul 17, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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A Sunday conversation with Shaw University President Dorothy Yancy
The following Q&A session with Shaw University President Dorothy C. Yancy was conducted by Rick Russell, Daily Dispatch contributor. RUSSELL : Reflecting back on your childhood, what were som...
Jul 17, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Legend and reality meet in the guise of a redheaded stranger
Don’t cross him, don’t boss him He’s wild in his sorrow He’s ridin’ and hidin’ in pain Don’t fight him, don’t spite him Just wait till tomorrow Maybe he’ll ride on again — The Red Headed Stranger,...
Jul 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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