Category: On Life

“Remember the workers, and thank the unions.” Labor Day is about the working folks and their rights in this country. When I first wrote about Labor Day, I

History matters. Forgetting has consequences. A personal reflection on Juneteenth, Frankie Mae, and the stories we choose to tell.

By Nick Lehr, The Conversation The total damage from Hurricane Helene to North Carolina – be it physical, psychological or economic – is difficult to quantify. But the

Step back in time to a day when the world pauses to the strum of a guitar, the plaintive melody of a bluegrass ballad, the clack of spoons,

One day, you wake up and you are no longer as able or as fast, or anything else as you used to be. When an accident put me