– you would be really good at it.

A mentor’s encouragement at the right moment offered a chance for redirection.

– some things don’t add up.

A honorable—but not honor—student miscalculates his chances of being drafted into the Army.

– to board the Starfleet’s Enterprise.

After applying decades ago to NASA to be the first journalist in space, this Trekkie later trained for a mission to Mars—sort of.

road trip into the heart of a marriage--

A journey begins with expectations. but along the way you can find yourself with no warning signs and no road maps. You can’t say exactly how it will end.

– we wandered about.

“The water looked lazy and safe, the day bright and full of opportunity.”

From "That Southern Thing" (PSPP 2020)

Life in eastern North Carolina’s tobacco country had some useful lessons for a young teen from the city.

—gewgaws all gone.

Aunt Polly’s collected things collect themselves on table tops and counter tops and in boxes in the basement.

a foretaste of glory divine yet to come -

Artist, writer, and athlete Bill Gramley of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, recounts his discoveries of Southern cooking and describes the delectables offered up from the table set by his mother-in-law on a 1960s North Carolina farm.

– a hushed-up story.

A family-history mystery uncovered long after the departing of everyone involved, everyone loved.

Coming from the Mountain West fifty years ago, a new bride discovered what “small town” really meant in South Carolina.

This episode was the first of Season 2 and began the sharing of stories from “That Southern Thing—living, loving. laughing, loathing, leaving the South,” the third anthology of the Personal Story Publishing Project. We hope you enjoy it again.