Sweet September Lessons from Freshman Tomfoolery
While summer comes to a close and students return to their dorms, Jim Dodson reminisces about his own ill-fated start to college.
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Life in Rabbit Land: What Generations of Backyard Rabbits Taught Me About Gardening
In Greensboro’s Starmount Forest, generations of eastern cottontail rabbits have called one family’s garden home for more than 50 years.
Simple Life: My Miss American Pie
Reflecting on the little slice of heaven my wife and I share — and how she’s still as sweet as ever
The Simple Life: Sacred Grounds
Jim Dodson shares his journey with what he calls the Three G’s of his life — golf, gardening and God
Simple Life: Letter to a June Bug
From a homegrown Ogden Nash by Jim Dodson | Illustration by Gerry O’Neill My daughter, Maggie, was born in 1989. It was a year of revolutions, a turning point in world affairs that witnessed the opening of the Berlin Wall,…
Simple Life: A Garden Reborn
Through patience, planning and a lot of hard work, an overgrown yard is turned into a vibrant, tour-worthy landscape
Simple Life: The Winding Path
Finding the Kingdom of God in my own backyard — and the friend who helped me discover it
Simple Life: The Man in the Mirror
Lessons learned from a father — including the power of a slow and careful shave.
Simple Life: Words of Wisdom
At the start of this new year, I’m turning to my collection of journals over the years as fodder for the journey ahead
Simple Life: If Wishes Were Wheelbarrows
After longing for a pickup truck year after year, this columnist learns to ask for the things that matter this holiday season
Simple Life: I See the Birds
As the year’s closing season approaches, I’m feeling grateful and reminding myself to look up and live more fully
Simple Life: The Comforts of October
At the top of the list of fall favorites: cooler days, warm fires in the evening and some scary-good Halloween cookies
The Simple Life: Gone East
After falling for a French exchange student, a writer decides to move to Paris — but finds that his backup plan is his true calling
The Liberty Man: A Revolutionary War Reenactor with an Interesting Backstory
In James Dodson’s newest book, The Road that Made America, he shares an encounter with historian Rev. Larry Wilson Johnson