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Weeks ago, before what felt like endless days of rain, two flats of tomato plants mysteriously landed on your porch (how’d they get there?), and so you planted them deep in the sunniest patches [...]

Going Viral Shedding light on dark days By Stephen E. Smith In the mid-’s, Richard Preston’s nonfiction The Hot Zone was a bestseller. Based on a 1989 outbreak of an Ebola-like strain of virus in [...]

The Garden of America It may not be Eden, but it comes mighty close if we tend it By Jim Dodson The last time I went to church was back in middle March. Seems like half a lifetime ago. On Sunday [...]

The Stolen Flower Child Love, loss and living things By Jim Dodson On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a clear spring morning in my tiny corner of the planet, I was out early planting a fig [...]

An Honest Day’s Storytelling Finding truth in Lee Smith’s fiction and nonfiction By D.G. Martin Some North Carolina writers say that it is easier for them to tell the truth in fiction than it is [...]

June is the ink that flows from the poet’s pen — sweet as gardenia and ephemeral as a dream; the fountain of everlasting passion. If ever you have read the love letters from John Keats to Fanny [...]