May 27, 2011
Telling stories has always been a passion of mine. I distinctly remember “Show and Tell” in first grade. Even then I took great pride — and pleasure — in relating tales, especially the quirky and unexpected views of life.
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May 13, 2011
This time last year, Premier Medical Plaza had a big mess. The four-story medical facility at Wendover Avenue and Premier Drive in north High Point was brand new, outfitted with spacious, modern physicians’ offices and diagnostic labs and attracting...
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April 29, 2011
The temptation had needled at me for several years. Everyone around me had given in. First my son. Then my husband. My sister held out until last fall. And then finally, one friend and then another fell to the pressure. At last I came to realize that I, t...
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April 15, 2011
When Tomi Watson decided to go into business for herself, her dog factored strongly into the equation. “One of the top three reasons I wanted to buy a business is that I could take my dog to work,” Watson fondly remembers. In her previous job......
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April 1, 2011
At the end of 2010 I wrote about lessons I’d learned throughout my battle with cancer. One of my resolutions was to “just do it.” Specifically, I resolved to grow daffodils this spring. The beautiful yellow buds are something I had alway...
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March 18, 2011
Talk with anyone around this region and you’ll hear them voice the same concern: What is going to happen to the furniture industry? It’s an industry that has made city names such as High Point, Thomasville and Lexington synonymous with furnitu...
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February 18, 2011
Jean Herring of High Point called me last month with a warm story on a bitter cold winter’s day. “We hung a Christmas bird seed wreath,” she said. The wreath was a gift from her daughter Andrea Morris, also of High Point.
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January 23, 2011
As we find ourselves between Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month in February, I would be remiss if I didn’t say something about one publisher’s recently announced plans to publish a sanitized version of Mark Twain’s classi...
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November 14, 2010
My uncle Buck Kennedy is holding a gathering of the cousins this weekend just because. It’s been a year since the last grand dame of the family died and Buck decided it was high time to round up the family for some reason other than a funeral. His i...
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October 31, 2010
Columnist’s note: When relaying tales of the supernatural, I rarely divulge the real names or locations of paranormal experiences. Doing so would subject the tellers of these stories and these facilities to ridicule and vandalism. Make no mistake; t...
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October 17, 2010
Throughout the Triad, golf courses draw duffers for friendly, if not competitive, rounds during the day. As night falls, clubhouses often become social centers for card games, cigar smoking and the sipping of scotch.
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Throughout the Triad, golf courses draw duffers for friendly, if not competitive, rounds during the day. As night falls, clubhouses often become social centers for card games, cigar smoking and the sipping of scotch.
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October 1, 2010
Did you realize that High Point’s stately Emerywood neighborhood was once farmland? In the early 1920s, Stephen C. Clark set out to develop a subdivision that was then northwest of town, just outside the city limits.
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September 19, 2010
Did you ever wear a Prisoner of War or Missing in Action bracelet — those aluminum cuffs that bore the name of a lost soldier and the date he or she was captured or went missing?
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September 5, 2010
If you had the privilege of going to college, you know something about honor codes. I’m of the generation of students who signed a pledge on the cover of each and every blue exam book: “On my honor, I have neither given nor received any unauth...
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May 30, 2010
Tucked behind High Point Museum’s Haley House and beside Hoggatt House and the Blacksmith’s Shop is a living exhibit that is steeped in history but perhaps taken a bit for granted.
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May 16, 2010
For the past two months, High Point has been the perch for several dozen exotic birds. Flamingos, actually. This spring these pink, tropical and very festive birds have been calling High Point home. Their migratory habits have been predictable. They selec...
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February 21, 2010
As a writer, every once in a while I feel like I really find the words people are eager to hear. Rest assured, I search for just the right topics and words with each column I write. Every once in a while, however, you hit a home run. It just happened for...
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January 24, 2010
Since January seems to be the time to set goals, I’d like for us to work together on this one.
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December 13, 2009
Christmas time is near Twinkling lights on a tall Fraser fir. The sweet smell of gingerbread wafting through the house. Well-behaved children in their green and red finery patiently awaiting Santa’s arrival ... STOP! It’s time for a reality c...
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November 29, 2009
At times, Beachy Allen had trouble putting one foot in front of the other while she battled breast cancer this past year, but she never, ever had trouble getting transportation to her doctor’s appointments or to chemotherapy.
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November 15, 2009
Please answer the following questions honestly. When you think of your Christmas shopping list, do you feel anxious?Is your gift-giving budget tighter this year than last? Does your child’s teacher really need another coffee mug labeled “World...
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October 4, 2009
Dixon’s Produce, in its time-worn wooden building at 3300 N. Main St., High Point, sits in sharp contrast to the new square generic grocery store in the background.
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September 6, 2009
For the first time in 19 years (counting preschool and college and all those grades in between), I didn’t send a child off to school. Consequently, for the last two weeks my thoughts have been preoccupied with thoughts of school days — specifi...
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August 23, 2009
During these steamy days of late summer, nothing cools my overheated soul better than a tall glass of ice water or a refreshing dip in a pool. So, for the 10th annual N.C. trivia quiz, our focus will be on bodies of water and water-related information acr...
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