Simple Life: The Kindness of Strangers
Best-selling author Jim Dodson writes about the kindness of strangers and the strangeness of some kinds of people.
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The Cowboy In Me
For this North Carolina writer and his wife, Western films are the cure for Yellowstone Fever
The Baker’s Assistant
Life is sweet when Wendy Dodson launches a new business that taps her passion for baking.
The Chosen One
Columnist Jim Dodson on spotting a red-tailed sentinel , his a faithful, four-legged soulmate and the concept of spirit animals
Jim Dodson on Meaningful Happiness
When you think about it, says this North Carolina writer, the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
Time & Remembrance
As this North Carolina writer watches a honeybee take its final drink, bittersweet memories arrive and depart
The Last Ride: A Legendary Car, Two Old Dogs, and the End of the Road
On finding one’s dream car — a 1996 Buick Roadmaster estate station wagon — and preparing to, one day, say goodbye.
Golf & Marriage
True love and harmless fun on the links
Miss Mully’s Garden
My landscape may be unfinished — but what in life is not?
The Death of a Green Dragon
A gardener’s fondness for his Japanese maple becomes a bittersweet reminder of life’s impermanence.
Kid of Wonder: Keeping My Child’s Heart
I need to remember to hold my eyes and heart open to the wonder of the world — just as my father did
Simple Gifts
For this writer, it seems that the secret to the good life is that less is more
The Winter Woods
Among the bare-branched trees, writes Jim Dodson, nature speaks my favorite language.
Becoming My Father… and Luckily, his Father, too
Church hymns, flannel shirts and briar pipes—I share today’s simple pleasures with the generations before me. by Jim Dodson A dear friend I hadn’t seen in far too long and I were having lunch outdoors, safely distanced. She sipped her…