Each January, I experience a renewed interest in writing projects, but find myself fighting the urge to approach the usual, cliché topics of resolutions, goals, and top ten lists.  This year I’m in luck because in a few days, I’ll experience a once-in-a-lifetime event – turning forty.   I don’t dread turning forty.  On the [...]

On Thursday, August 4, while speed-reading through all the normal, humdrum Facebook news feed posts, something caught my eye and sparked my curiosity.  A childhood friend from the Union Park Gardens posted two words: “delivering newspapers” in a group called Memories in Wilmington.  My mind instantly transported back to the early 1980’s when I spent [...]