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In a commercial that ran in the Carolina Hurricanes playoff game, the elementary school boy came home. He looked in his fridge for apples and bananas.
Published: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 9:49 am
By: Lib Campbell
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The Greenville Rose High School graduating class of 1963 met for its sixtieth reunion this weekend.
Published: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 5:08 am
By: Lib Campbell
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You have taken the spotlight off North Carolina in expelling two Black Representatives from the floor of your legislature. Elected Representatives.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 8:10 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Tonight, playing the piano through the score of Les Mis, I had an epiphany. Empty Chairs and Empty Tables. One Day More. A Little Drop of Rain.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 8:52 am
By: Lib Campbell
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I must go down to the sea again…to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask…. is for highway 12 to be rebuilt. And for county, state or federal money to pay for beach renourishment, so my house will not be swept into the ocean.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 2:06 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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The list of toxic accidents in the United States is long. I use the term accidents loosely, because some of the toxicity that has poisoned land and river is a consequence of bad decisions, disregard for the safety of people and animals, and a general carelessness of creation.
Published: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 8:10 am
By: Lib Campbell
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In my family the song “Daddy sang base, Mama sang tenor” was not far from the truth. Only in my family Daddy sang bass, mama played the piano.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 4:08 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Bright. Shiny. Treat. That’s what Wordle is. The New York Times started a trend in a game that takes the Jumbles to a new height.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 8:59 am
By: Lib Campbell
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When NBC news host, Lester Holt said there had been 68 mass shootings in 2023, my mouth dropped. That’s more mass shootings than days so far in 2023.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 9:03 am
By: Lib Campbell
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You are almost home. Your family is gathered, whispering sweet words of gratitude and blessing for your exemplary life. We all thank you for the witness of a good and gracious life. Prayers for ease and peace in this transition.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2023 @ 1:46 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Much is written about polarization in American life today. Examples of things that separate us – like the urban/rural divide and the college educated/ high school education divide.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 9:39 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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I love light. I have twinkle lights all over the yard and keep lights burning inside and outside most of the time. When I look around at the lamps we have, I realize they tell a story of the life Tom and I have lived together for nearly 58 years.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 @ 4:03 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Reading his bio, it sounds like William Barber II was destined for the role of prophet from the time he was 15. Leadership in NAACP and student government as a teenager prepared him all the roles he is now undertaking.
Published: Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 11:09 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Once in a while Hallmark produces a movie that resonates deeply with me. “Romance in Style,” starring Jaicy Elliot is that movie.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 1:41 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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My love of football started in high school. In the 1960s, Coaches Stuart Tripp and Tommy Lewis led Ayden High School Single-A football teams to many winning seasons and state championships.
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 11:02 am
By: Lib Campbell
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For just 63 cents a day, less than a cup of coffee, you can save all the dogs and cats who are tied to trees in the snow and cold of winter.
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 7:23 am
By: Lib Campbell
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2023 begins with resolutions and revolutions around the world. Yet it is offered to us as a blank slate.
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, on Christmas Day of 1863, wrote what has become a well-loved carol, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 2:31 am
By: Lib Campbell
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The story of Mary Mallon is a tale to ponder today, as we recover from a Pandemic that killed over a million people in this country.
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2022 @ 3:57 am
By: Lib Campbell
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I am a lover of light. I love lights strung in the back yard. I love the candle lights that keep a low glow in our house at night.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 @ 10:16 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Not talking reindeer games here. Talking about the political gamesmanship already beginning in the congress.
Published: Thursday, December 1st, 2022 @ 10:47 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Thanksgiving is a perfectly American holiday. Nothing religious. No victory celebration. Just a time for Americans to gather at the feast, whatever that means.
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2022 @ 7:48 am
By: Lib Campbell
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For any of us who hoped to see things quiet down and all who hoped civility, kindness and graciousness would return after the elections, we likely have missed that boat.
Published: Friday, November 18th, 2022 @ 6:29 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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When the last vote is cast and the last ballot counted how will things be different? Will we at last enter a time of peace when tempers abate and words of kindness fill our mouths?
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2022 @ 6:26 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Pew Research reports that since the 19th Amendment passed nearly 100 years ago, about half of the population says that giving women the right to vote has been “the most important milestone in the advancing of the position of women” in history
Published: Monday, November 7th, 2022 @ 12:22 am
By: Lib Campbell
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In DC last weekend, we rode the Hop-on Hop-off bus. We love Hop-on bus tours and have done them in every major city we have visited
Published: Saturday, November 5th, 2022 @ 4:52 am
By: Lib Campbell
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The American love affair with the railroads began in the 1720s when wooden rails, known as “wagonways,” began to transport freight and goods across a country that was more than ready to increase commercial opportunities
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 @ 10:41 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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There was a day when a good education was a goal. A good education was touted as a necessary step in getting a good job.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Katie Couric made the decision to lead a charge for awareness in revealing her journey with breast cancer that began last summer.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 4:08 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Tuesday, October 4, is Saint Francis Feast Day. Saint Francis was a 12th Century monk who is considered the Patron Saint of the Animals and all Creation
Published: Sunday, October 9th, 2022 @ 9:20 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Tom Brokaw wrote his book, The Greatest Generation, about the men of World War Two. They rose up to defend a nation under attack, with great resolve that our United States would survive and thrive.
Published: Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 @ 9:47 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Early in September, a 13-year-old middle schooler committed suicide while on campus. Wendell Middle School released the students due to a “medical crisis,” and all the students went home. All except Austin Pendergrass who died that day.
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Lib Campbell
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I share with you a piece I wrote for my blog, www.aVirtualChurch.com about care for the mentally ill. Since this piece was written some things about serving the mental health needs of North Carolina have changed, some have not.
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 7:30 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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The news crawl across the bottom of the television gave us the news. Queen Elizabeth died the afternoon of September 8, 2022.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 3:00 am
By: Lib Campbell
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The young woman eulogized her Mother offering a framework of the virtue and purity of spirit her Mother embodied.
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2022 @ 3:58 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Armand Gamache, Louise Penny’s protagonist in “Glass Houses,” is in the courtroom, in the middle of a murder trial. The discussion is around what makes people kill.
Published: Sunday, September 4th, 2022 @ 6:33 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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School bells are ringing across North Carolina. And the wheels on the yellow bus go ‘round and ‘round. Something feels right with the world when the normalcy of school days begins.
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 12:44 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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The two books of my summer reading paint a picture of America that is both unsettling and understandable. Anne Applebaum is an award - winning historian and prizewinning author.
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2022 @ 12:44 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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When I went back to college in my late 40s, I remember walking through the libraries at Meredith and Duke talking to the books.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 12:38 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Now I know how the British felt watching the Spanish Armada sail into English waters in July of 1588. King Philip II commissioned them to invade England with the intent of overthrowing Queen Elizabeth I.
Published: Saturday, July 30th, 2022 @ 2:10 am
By: Lib Campbell
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There is a new telescope in town. The James Webb Space Telescope is going far, far away revealing secrets of the universe we have never seen before.
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2022 @ 3:16 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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North Carolina will be in the news once again next October as the US Supreme Court hears the case Moore vs. Harper, a case that could alter not only our state, but our democracy. We need to pay attention to this one.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 8:54 am
By: Lib Campbell
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