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Hurricane Irene passed through this weekend, hurling branches against our house all night into early morning. Acorns rolled madly across the...

The following interview was 23 years in the making. In 1988, while taking a graduate-level journalism course at UNC-Chapel Hill, I intervi...

My daughter wanted a mostly camp-free summer and I have granted her that wish—one week of art camp (which she requested) will be her only ca...

Earlier this summer I visited my hometown of Moravian Falls, N.C., and discovered it has become a point of pilgrimage—some newcomer ministe...

The Onion's AV Club is posting a two-part series on locations in Baltimore used in The Wire . Given my reluctance to visit Baltimore (...

A couple of years ago I read an article about Karen Zacarías , a local playwright and mother of three, who confessed that she was only able ...

My spouse was watching a movie a few weeks ago (on the small TV in the kitchen that we use when washing the dishes), in which a group of te...

"As a writer, director and producer, Leonard Stern was a legendary (noun) in show business. He had an (adjective) career that took him...

I haven't written much in the last couple of weeks because I've been spending all my free time trying to create a garden (or a few ...

I met Pam Smallcomb at a SCBWI -sponsored ABC (Author Book Club) event in March and liked her good humor and practical advice so much, I as...