My Poetic Summer Vacation
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Tag: Jim Dodson
Simple Life: Summer Twilight
Jim Dodson reflects on a South Carolina childhood spent in twilight — the brief, magical time between day and night.
Simple Life: The Cocktail Cat
Every night around happy hour, Jim Dodson’s cat makes an appearance, offering a chance for armchair philosophizing.
The Incomplete Gardener
Just like the plants in his garden, this writer finds we’re always learning and growing, dreaming and scheming.
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.
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.