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Organize your shelves with lots of good books

Do you remember the scene in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” where Belle gets to see the castle’s ...

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Exams, woolly rhinos, and a bag of chips

The first week of August brought eastern North Carolina a hurricane and western North Carolina an earthquake. Mother ...

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Celebrating 100 years of voting

Not long after my 18th birthday, I remember my mother taking me down to the Board of Elections ...

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Coping to get through this year

I was browsing WRAL’s website recently, and saw an article about a food blogger in Durham who’s been ...

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At least the animals are having a good time

Imagine you’re at a hotel, minding your business and eating at the bar when someone comes along to ...

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For everything, there is a season…

I write my column this week in the midst of a not-so-fun heatwave. Heat indexes in the triple ...

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Know the warning signs of heat-related illnesses

People who’ve lived in North Carolina all their lives are used to the hot summer temperatures combined with ...

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Let’s stop being obsessed with being the best

I think it’s fair to say that, as a society, we’re obsessed with being “the best.” It’s ingrained ...

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Simple steps to how to wear a mask

I know this may come as a shock to some of you, but the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic isn’t ...

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Grammar rules are more like guidelines

I had a professor in college who would often send group emails letting us English majors know about ...

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Persistence can lead to change

The month of June this year has been marked so far with protests across the country. People everywhere, ...

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Some of us need to be quiet and listen

There’s an old episode of Star Trek: Voyager where one of the characters, Commander Chakotay, crashes a shuttle ...

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Hurricane season likes being ahead of schedule

As I write this week’s column, Tropical Storm Bertha is hurtling from the warm waters of the Atlantic ...

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Traditions interrupted, traditions reinvented

For more than a decade now, my Memorial Day weekend plans have always consisted of taking a trip ...

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College experiences leave lasting impacts

This month marks eight years since I graduated college, and sometimes I can’t believe it’s been that many ...

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