I'm in DC for a conference and for once I didn't travel with a laptop. Since I have my Blackberry I have no problem keeping up with email but surfing Ze Web ain't exactly easy. It's also a pain to blog this way, but it beats toting around a laptop so I won't complain too much. Really the biggest has...

March 7 is a fun day for me every year. Why? Because it's Celeste's and my anniversary and for 17 years it follow has followed the day that I almost have a heart attack at 11:00 P.M. You know, that's when I have my "Oh crap" moment as I realize that once again I almost forgot the occassion and that ...

One of the problems with having a saturated septic field is that you really want to avoid putting any more water into it.  That becomes problematic when you have three teenagers, so we've been taking measures to limit our water use.  This week that's meant making a couple of trips to the laundroma...

Before I get started let me just say this: I don't think a missed walking call or five in favor of Duke is why they won the game against Wake last night.  Gerald Henderson could have been shooting a beach ball at a donut and he would have made it.  He was absolutely on fire last night.  Sure, the...

Last night I was invited to a friends house to watch the Wake-Duke game and as I approached his neighborhood I realized it was just across Ransom Road from my grandparent's home in Town & Country.  I don't get over to that part of town much, but whenever I do it always brings back some great me...

Have you heard about the latest high-end scam artist?  No, not Madoff, but this joker Sir Allen Stanford who is accused of running an $8 billion fraud that on the surface sounds an awful lot like Madoff's scandal. Part of the emerging Stanford story is his soft money donations back in 2000 to prom...

For as long as I've lived here I've been reading about plans for revitalizing Winston-Salem.  The strategy seems to be to revitalize downtown, concentrate on developing a business community focused on what can generally be classified as the "creative and design industries", and to try and attract a...

I have a prediction: there's going to be an absolute crap-storm when Forsyth County does its property tax revaluations, whether it's this week or in two months.  The county commissioners heard last night from the fellow in charge of doing the revaluations and he told them that he'd heard from an ex...

Over in Greensboro there's been a push to reinstate protest petitions and it's a pretty heated battle.  It's a complicated story and if you don't track Greensboro politics it is kind of hard to follow. To summarize let's just say that in most of North Carolina residents can file a protest petition ...

I've spent a good percentage of my life on fields and courts as both a player and a coach.  At best I'm average at both playing or coaching, but I've enjoyed the process immensely and over the years I hope that I've learned much through my observations.  One thing I've learned through all that par...