An Expats Guide to Living in North Carolina
My sister-in-law passed away Tuesday. She’d been diagnosed with leukemia about six weeks earlier. She was 73. Talk about a wake-up call – the realization that all any of us has is today and nothing else is guaranteed. I mean we all know it, right? Somewhere, deep down. But we fool ourselves into thinking death … More Seize the Day
2025. Can you believe it? I’m resolved to try to slow time down and yet here we are, five days in already. Insane. So far this year … … we’ve had a New Year’s Day hike at Umstead, the local nature park, rather than Hanging Rock which is all of two hours west of here. … More January 5, 2025
One March day a few years ago, after a rather wet and chilly start to the year, the weather had begun to turn a bit milder, which meant I was out working in my garden and yard. As usual, this started out with coffee on the deck, which led to severe pruning of an overgrown … More Hacking Back the Lorapetalum
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