Mom’s “busy hands” did a fine work--

A North Carolina son finds a story he wrote while tending his mother's passing. Even without rhyme or meter to mark it, it is poetry all the same. Mother’s Day memories.

Fried Spam and Rust - Kentucky writer Pam Brinegar recalls her experiences even as a young child visiting with her great aunt, a woman both particular and peculiar perhaps and most especially memorable.

Two short snippets by two different writers combine to help us deal with our sense of being trapped inside and dealing with our cabin fever. Writers Beth Bixby Davis and Judie Holcomb-Pack, both with stories included in “Bearing Up” and “Exploring,” share these short pieces for times such as these.

An engineering prodigy arrives in the South, fascinated with an ancient relic and searching for the aerodynamic laws of angel wings, all the while nurturing his grove of Carolina dogwoods. It’s a good life.

This April and May mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the death of two notorious dictators--Mussolini and Hitler.

A grandfather’s hardscrabble, Southern life on a farm and in the mill is a legacy embraced by this North Carolina writer who remembers him with “gnarled leather skin like a pair of old work gloves.”

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

A North Carolina writer learns that Southern graces don't come easily or without tears. .

Gratitude is what keeps us humble as we realize at any age how much of a role luck plays in our lives.

A native of Ohio, William Hildebolt shares a family story from the earliest days of his ancestors who have lived on and worked the same land near the Indiana border and kept up the family homestead for 200 years.