Month: August 2007

  • One long day at Trinity School

    FADED AND JADED AS I AM after teaching all sorts of things at all sorts of levels to all sorts of ages for the past 40 years (I have done…

  • One last chance for Butch Davis

    NOW THAT A FEW WEEKS have passed and I have had a chance to recover from our defeat in the Blue-White Game, I think I have calmed down enough, I…

  • Helping ourselves while helping others

    WHAT IS THE BEST treatment program for people with alcoholism? On a number of occasions I have asked this question to groups of people, and I have always gotten the…

  • Handicapping our future president

    BEFORE TOO LONG (in 15 interminable months) we’ll be electing a president here in Chapel Hill. Since, as a member of the mainstream media, I must retain my devout neutrality,…

  • A very, very questionable column

    SOME OF MY MOST DEDICATED readers, who seem to have nothing better to do than try to figure out what I mean by my columns, have sent me a series…