What do you do when you are drinking so much that you black out? What do you do when, as result of alcoholism, your life is spiraling out of control?

Geoff Hulse, with the loving support of his wife and law partners, went to a facility in Atlanta for ninety plus days where he began the road back to sobriety and away from the illness of alcoholism.

It has now been over sixteen years since that ride south. It has been, and always will be, one day at a time.

But recovery is possible, and Geoff proves that every day. Listen and see Geoff tell his story of his journey home.

For more than three weeks they came, every night, lines out the door, waiting hours to get a stool at the oyster bar or a table in the dining room or lounge.

Everyone seemed to want one last visit, one last meal, one last memory.

For some of us, we came back the final night, Sunday, March 30 to say hello to friends of some time ago, and then too quickly say goodbye once again.

It was bittersweet. Thanks for the memories.

The story of the 42nd Street Oyster Bar as you have never heard it before...how it came to be what it became.

From its creation in 1987 by Thad Eure, Jr., and Brad Hurley until its doors close on Sunday, March 30.

If you have ever been there, even once, or thought about going there, you do not want to miss this story.

42nd Street Oyster Bar - New Podcast coming Monday, March 31

38 years - a look back

Conversations and pictures with wait staff and management

A look back to my times at the 42nd Street Oyster Bar in Raleigh, first as a loyal and regular customer, then as a host and finally for some time a waiter.

42nd Street is where I learned to start over. It is where I got my life back.

A journey to the past. Thanks for the memories!

Glenn Blackburn was an 18-year-old college freshman in April, 1960, when he started the African Student Program at Wake Forest. His goal was to bring an African student to the United States and present him to the Board of Trustees, saying he wants to become a student. Will you accept him?

It took two years, and shortly after that, on behalf of the College Lecture Series, he was having dinner with Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. and introducing him to a crowd of over 2,000 in Wait Chapel.

Ever the historian, Glenn writes a book on Saving Great Places, stories of the coastal waters of North Carolina, including Bird Island, Kindred Spirits and a Mailbox.

It's all here in a riveting conversation, Monday, March 10.

The Fatal Vision Podcast with James McGinniss, son of Joe McGinniss and Billy Glidden is a multi-episode podcast on the true crime classic and bestselling Fatal Vision, which became the forerunner of the NBC mini- series by the same name.

James and Billy take a journey through the book, reading parts of it at times and talking about Joe's writing at other places.

Episode 12 is when they interview me about the case and Joe. It is a wide open conversation about it all, from start to finish in the amazing summer of 1979.

It is October 1962, and the civil rights struggle is in its early hours. Wake Forest College (not yet a university} joins the struggle and in the spring of 1962, votes to integrate the school.

It is the first private school of higher education in the South to do so.

Ed Reynold, from Ghana, starts classes in September 1962, and a month later Martin Luther King comes for dinner and speaks on campus to an overflow crowd in Wait Chapel.

My older brother Glenn is the leader of the student group mainly responsible for the integration of Wake Forest and also for the invitation to Dr. King to have dinner and speak.

Change is in the air. Much seems possible - all because a group of students, faculty and administrative people tried their best to do the right thing.

This is the beginning of that story.

Fifty - Five years ago today, February 17, 1970, Colette, Kimberly and Kristen MacDonald lost their lives in their home, brutally beaten and stabbed.

Not until the summer of 1979 did a trial bring someone to justice. Jeffrey MacDonald, Colette's husband and the father of the two young girls, his daughters, was found guilty of killing all three.

It was a long trial, the longest Federal criminal proceeding in North Carolina history. It became, after years and years of motions and appeals that seemingly never ended, one of the longest running criminal cases ever.

In the end, MacDonald lost. He remains today in prison, serving his sentence of three consecutive life sentences.

This is a look back at those times when all was in doubt, and there was no certainty as to what would happen.

Sliding doors we all go through lead us in different directions many times in our lives. The decisions and choices of friends, partners, careers, places we live often determine what path we will take as we go through life.

Among many such choices, two stand out for me. One is joining the United States Attorney's office, and the other is starting this podcast.

In two months, April 11 I will have been podcasting for two years, between 90 and 100 separate ones by that time.

I invite you on a brief journey with me as I remember many of my guests, how they came to be such, and the many great lessons and teachings I have learned from them.

They are like jurors in a courtroom. They have been at their best.

Starts Monday, February 10.