Posts Tagged ‘First Person’
Vegetarian at the BBQ fest
On four hours of sleep, life can start to look a little hazy. Or maybe it was just the smoke. There I was, at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning, camped out in a parking lot surrounded by meat-filled grills and a team of unshowered men who, it was safe to assume, were also meat-filled.
Sitting there clutching...
October 13th, 2010 | Current Issue, Featured | Read More
Duplicity A New Beginning
“Look, there’s Chopper 9,” Laura said, pointing into clouds behind Bank of America Stadium, as the latest news helicopter emerged from the hazy morning horizon and banked into an arc over the scene below on Stonewall. That made three news and two police helicopters circling the jet-black smoke...
August 17th, 2010 | August 2010 | Read More
London to Charlotte Direct
For the past four years, I’ve lived the high life in London, England. I had access to movie premieres, world-class museums and stage productions, with the rest of Europe just a short, cheap plane ride away.
So when I began telling people that I was trading London for the other Queen City across the...
August 16th, 2010 | August 2010 | Read More
Everything for Sale
As we’re talking, I casually look around and see what looks like an old war helmet. I ask to see it and the gentleman behind the counter starts talking. It is a World War II German military helmet, he says. From the heft of the metal and crusty leather interior it’s hard to disagree with the age...
August 10th, 2010 | August 2010 | Read More
Note from the Publisher July 2010
The magazine is 5 years and 60 issues old this month, but I can only think about my youngest daughter, Anna, with her new tooth that came in as a present to me on Father’s Day. Anna has Down syndrome and everything takes a bit longer for her. She’s over a year old, just getting her first teeth and...
August 2nd, 2010 | July 10 | Read More
Anna at the Marine Corps Mud Run
While a lot of local athletes in and around the Charlotte area spent the weekend participating in the 24 Hours of Booty bike ride… I was among another group of athletes giving true meaning to ‘The Dirty South.’ The Marine Corps hosted their 4th Annual Mud Run at Belmont Abbey. I laced up my old...
August 2nd, 2010 | August 2010 | Read More
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