Living


Hearth and Home

Salmon is best appreciated when sauteed in a buttery sauce of common herbs and served on a clean plate. If prepared properly everything else is secondary; even the abundance of a perfect craft beer - the same beer that sustained me throughout the process.

This Christmas Day, with my home full of family and friends, I will drink my craft beer, and I will prepare this wonderful salmon dish, but there will be one change - I will double the recipe. Hmmm, I wonder should I double my consumption ... (read more)
A traveler passing through downtown Washington during its cool season might presume they had fallen upon a ghost town. When skies are gray, shop windows are dim and pedestrians scarce.

From November to March, most Beaufort County citizens enter a sort of hibernation phase, causing downtown businesses to keep even more limited hours than usual and downtown organizations to stop hosting their many attractive festivals.

When spring arrives and the stir-crazy people of Beaufort County emerge fro... (read more)
There are few meals that are as much a pleasure to cook and reflect upon, as they are to eat. Typically, either a recipe is too demanding to recreate without causing extreme frustration, or too effortless to recreate without yielding anything other than your average weekday meal.

The most palatable of these easy-to-make, run-of-the-mill meals are usually your standard comfort food items--a far cry from the spa-style foods you listed on last night's Bikini Countdown Diet-Plan Promise. You may f... (read more)
Growing up in the Deatherage household, wasting food was not an option. "Our enemy is Waste," is a phrase my father often repeated with the weight of the world behind it. I suspect this was something he learned from his parents: Sue, the collector of all things nostalgic and beautiful; and Bob, who bought his produce the day before it spoiled from off the rolling cart at the grocery store.

My father was raised around furniture from estate sales and eating bread from the wholesale bakery. He l... (read more)

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Travel

In March, 2010 and 2011, I spent a few wonderful afternoons on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and inside a few of the Smithsonian Museums along that storied strip of mostly treeless ground between the united States Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. One afternoon was clear and blue, and two afternoons were overcast, with one a real gully washer.

Generally, I like being outside on the National Mall to walk about and just visually drink in the Greek Revival architecture, much of it inspired... (read more)
"I do believe it. I do believe it's true."

And so it goes in Paul Simon's "At the Zoo," within the fine collection of tunes in the Simon and Garfunkel classic album, "Bookends," released in 1968, and so it is for me when I am ever close to the Woodley Park neighborhood in northern Washington, DC. When I'm in that area, I always go to the Smithsonian Zoological Park - the "National Zoo," if only for a mere hour, and sometimes less.

If you do not have to park your car, and I always walk to th... (read more)
Publisher's note: This a continuation of "Every Picture Tells a Story ... Don't It:" On the Road - The Colorful Shenandoah, Chapter III. It was a good trip, as exemplified in this journal.

This is the time of year when Autumn unfurls its brilliant colors. There is a chill in the air, and often that change of season can be breathtaking. This was not necessarily the case on this trip; however, the weather was seasonally brisk, the sky clear, and roads clear of all obstructions. With all that ... (read more)
Publisher's note: This a continuation of "Every Picture Tells a Story ... Don't It:" On the Road - The Colorful Shenandoah, Chapter II. It was a very good trip, with plenty of material to share.

Shenandoah National Park, with the 105 mile long Skyline Drive bisecting it from southwest to northeast along its spine, is a rugged natural park running from Front Royal to the North to Rockfish Gap to the South. Along the winding, smooth surfaced road that undulates through Blue Ridge Mountain Rang... (read more)

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A Historical Perspective

If you ever get the chance to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, you will be forever affected by what you see and learn there, and you will be moved by a quote you see hanging near one of the exhibits. It is a quote by Martin Niemoller which reads:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I d... (read more)
Publisher's note: This initiates an annual recurring theme that will become a series celebrating the lives, and in some cases, the deaths of those who have passed on in the preceding calendar year.

The human race is only as good as the humans that make up who we are, so let us collectively revere those that made a positive difference in their lives, and ultimately ours, and be most thankful for the deaths of those, whose wretched existence were most contrary to sustaining the betterment of our... (read more)
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered one of the most important speeches in our country's history. Attending a meeting of the Second Virginia Convention at St. John's Church in Richmond, Henry intended to present a proposal to organize a militia in every Virginia county. The Convention met at St. John's Chuch rather than the Capitol in Williamsburg because of opposition from England's Royal Governor Lord Dunmore and his Royal Marines. Suspicious of the oppressive taxes and coercive polic... (read more)
The need for government, plain and simple, is because absolute freedom is impossible. However much we believe that freedom is the natural right of man, anarchy is not feasible in a world of evil and imperfect men.

Governments, like those in the United States, are the intentional creations of free people. People mutually agree to transfer some of their rights to a governing body in order that they may live an ordered and more fruitful existence. Yes, they create governments so that liberty, in... (read more)

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Health and Fitness

Press release:

Tickets on sale now!

(Washington, NC) - Tickets are now on sale for the 5th Shaggin' for a Cause! The event will be held on March 17th, 2012 at the Washington Civic Center. We are excited to have Jim Quick & Coastline as our featured entertainment and what a great time of year - St. Patrick's Day - to come together for a fun event that raises money for a great cause.

Proceeds from the event benefit The Shepard Cancer Foundation whose mission is to financially support and pr... (read more)
For immediate release:

GREENVILLE, N.C. - Effective June 2012, health care providers at Inner Banks Urgent Care in Washington will begin seeing patients at other practices throughout the county.

The providers will no longer see patients at Inner Banks Urgent Care.

The urgent care providers will rotate among internal medicine, family medicine and women's care practices.
The former Beaufort County Hospital now owned by Vidant Health, formerly University Health Systems. photo by Stan De... (read more)
For immediate release:

GREENVILLE, NC – Beginning this week, Washington Women’s Care will be affiliated with Vidant Medical Group, a multi-specialty physician and provider group that is part of Vidant Health. In addition to its joining Vidant Health, the practice will be merging with Obstetrics andGynecology of Washington. The two practices, both located on Brown Street in Washington, will still maintain separate offices, but willoperate under one name, Vidant Women’s Care – Washington.

“P... (read more)
For Immediate Release

(Washington, NC) - The Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center offers a variety of special programs and activities to help cancer patients, survivors as well as their primary caregivers deal with the emotional and physical challenges associated with having cancer. The Cancer Center's vision is to provide integrative therapies that complement traditional care at no cost to the participant. The programs are not limited to patients of the Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center, any survivor... (read more)

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It's Personal

I know there are many wonderful mothers residing in this region, however, my personal best is my wife, Lynn, and for good reason.

She has raised our four children: Brandia, Meredith, Stanhope and Anna from birth, and has selflessly given much of herself to do so.

Our children will grow older and wiser with time on their side, but they will never experience anything again resembling the unconditional love that was showered upon them by both of their parents, but especially by their sweet, lov... (read more)
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 the Southside High School Senior, Sarah Edwards, past away after her car and a log truck collided on Chandler Road. Chandler road is just off of Highway 17 towards Craven county. I knew the Edwards for many years; I knew Sarah when she was just a little girl when I was friends with her older sister Heather Edwards. I remember going to their home and going to little Sarah's birthday party at Wichards' Beach. She was a very fun loving kid and her prospects of pursuing cu... (read more)





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