Simple Life: Coach & The Bull
Before he even realized he had the talent, two perceptive educators nurtured this writer’s budding career as an author.
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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.
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.
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
The Death of a Green Dragon
A gardener’s fondness for his Japanese maple becomes a bittersweet reminder of life’s impermanence.
Simple Gifts
For this writer, it seems that the secret to the good life is that less is more
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…