The house is empty and cold and dead. Next week it will be full again with other lives. But we can never go black inside ...

It is clearing out. Clearing out the treasures — and the junk. Deciding what’s what. Finding places for these newly orphaned ...

As long as we have needed to get from point A to point B, by trading routes or trails or paved interstate, there have been ...

In some North Carolina houses, this is a time of empty rooms and empty spaces. Children, so long ever-present, are now ...

The Rev. Steve Davis points out that church attendance is way down and considers whether Christians should go to church.

As long as we have needed to get from point A to point B, by trading routes or trails or paved interstate, there have been ...

James Dodson of Greensboro sets out on a soulful journey in his new book, “The Road that Made America,” tracing the old Great ...

It happens to all of us when we move after being in a house for a long time. But when our parents or grandparents move to a smaller home-- or die-- it is more than moving.

My grandchildren will live in the future, but the occasion draws me almost 100 years into the past when, in 1928, my father ...

As long as we have needed to get from point A to point B, by trading routes or trails or paved interstate, there have been directions given, maps drawn, and ...

Here’s a trivia question: Name a novel by a North Carolina writer about a fictional author who traveled abroad and struggled with returning to the complexities of American culture? If you know your ...

Where does our garbage go? After you take it out of your house into your bin and roll it to the curb, the garbage truck comes to get it and rolls on out of your neighborhood. But then where does it go ...