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I woke up this Sunday before Christmas, in Elizabeth City. I am usually the first one to wake, no matter, the roof I am under, and today was no different.
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 5:12 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Not yet, has the sun risen at the rabbit patch, but I have been up a while. Moon Shine sent something crashing and shattering- and that worked better than any alarm clock.
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2016 @ 5:44 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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Holiday mornings are the most beautiful kind of mornings, to me. On the rabbit patch calendar, this Sunday morning, is a holiday. Today, my family will celebrate Thanksgiving
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2016 @ 7:13 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Here are a series of NASA videos featuring John Glenn's Friendship 7 flight into space.
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2016 @ 2:25 am
By: Bobby Tony
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None of us want to go to jail. That being said, there is a pretty good chance that some who are in jail do not know why they are in jail.
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 3:11 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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This point came to me from my Son-In-Law and he makes a great point...
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After Fifty Seven years under Fidel Castro's rule, a small country embarks on the new beginning and we have a new opportunity.
Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2016 @ 8:14 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Today, I pay my greatest respects and deep appreciation, as I celebrate the life of a wonderful patriot, and a Democrat at that ... When was the last time I had this opportunity?
Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2016 @ 8:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's a long way to the bottom but we have been working very hard to get there.
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 @ 1:03 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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No other holiday, is remembered with the same magnitude, as Christmas. Christmas has so many more details and the older you become, the dearer and clearer, the memories seem.
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2016 @ 4:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is the eve of Thanksgiving. I look forward to this day about as much as the holiday, itself.
Published: Saturday, December 10th, 2016 @ 5:44 am
By: Michele Rhem
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In 2014 for the first time, we left town for Christmas and enjoyed a picture-perfect holiday at Amelia Island. In the past, my husband and I hosted Holiday meals for varying size crowds.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 3:40 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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I like to go out first thing in the morning, not long after waking
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 11:20 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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For many civilians, the memories of a military event are an abstract memory. However, for the participants it is the faces, names, and specific events that mark the event. Here are some of their stories.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 4:56 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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It is said that "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb"
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 2:45 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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By most accounts, the last Sunday in October, passed in an ordinary fashion. The sun came up and brought its' shine.
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 @ 10:28 am
By: Michele Rhem
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We all woke up early this morning. Outside the window, I could see the day was bright and clear. The dogwood looked especially dashing wearing all shades of red against the blue expanse of sky
Published: Tuesday, December 6th, 2016 @ 11:26 am
By: Michele Rhem
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For a good while, I had been looking forward to seeing the famous November moon over the rabbit patch. Last night, I planned a very simple supper, all because of the grand event
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 11:39 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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Once again, I left after school on Friday for Elizabeth City. Sometimes, things just work out. We do not have classes Monday or Tuesday , and it just seemed I was destined to see Lyla wear little wings and wave a wand about, on Halloween
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 4:06 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The October climate deserves a crown. For the last few weeks, any given day could have been a post card-with bragging rights.
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 11:18 am
By: Michele Rhem
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What's on your Christmas list this year? I must say it has become more and more difficult through the years for me to give my husband any clue as to what I might want for Christmas.
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 11:04 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Lately, when a day ends, I declare its' beauty and feel certain it is the "fairest of all".
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 5:18 am
By: Michele Rhem
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I am quite sure that all the world sings in October. I saw the sun rise this morning on my drive to work-and this day was born in a beautiful manner, I can assure you-and worthy of a song
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Saturday was as beautiful a morning as the one before it. I went out expecting to find the usual circus of the squirrels in the yard-but no, the yard was as still as it could be
Published: Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 @ 11:35 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Due to increasing numbers of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases, beginning Monday, Dec. 5, children under the age of 12 may not visit patients at the James and Connie Maynard Children's Hospital at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC
Published: Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 @ 9:40 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Vidant Beaufort Hospital will hold its annual Lights of Love Tree Lighting Ceremony Tuesday, December 6th beginning at 6:00 pm in front of the Hospital at 628 East 12th Street in Washington
Published: Friday, December 2nd, 2016 @ 2:23 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The North Carolina Institute of Medicine and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are partnering to convene Regional Leadership Summits involving Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations
Published: Friday, December 2nd, 2016 @ 10:36 am
By: Christopher Maye
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It rained on the first day of autumn at the rabbit patch. It rained all day, as it had, for several days before.
Published: Thursday, December 1st, 2016 @ 7:21 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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Friday morning dawned with crisp air that snapped with song birds calling out to one another
Published: Thursday, December 1st, 2016 @ 11:44 am
By: Michele Rhem
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I sure was happy when the lamp on the morning table came on yesterday
Published: Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 @ 1:17 am
By: Michele Rhem
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All day the rabbit patch has looked like a scene from "Wuthering Heights". It has been gray and breezy- and the rain has been constant. Now, the wind has picked up and is wuthering through out the territory.
Published: Monday, November 28th, 2016 @ 7:32 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is accepting applications for the state's Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP) beginning Dec. 1, 2016
Published: Monday, November 28th, 2016 @ 3:06 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Snow has blossomed all around. The cotton fields are white. With a little imagination, a cotton field, this time of year, looks like the remnants of a snowfall
Published: Saturday, November 26th, 2016 @ 1:04 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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An average day in the life of a grunt in the II Corp area Northeast of Saigon in 1968 consisted of Eagle Flights. We would form groups of six in two columns. The Huey helicopters would come in to pick us up. Usually three men from each side would upload on the Hueys.
Published: Saturday, November 26th, 2016 @ 8:36 am
By: Bobby Tony
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