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Aug 1, 20204 min read

Is frolicking on the beach with friends really worth burying your mama?

Dear Dr. Smith, I love your column in The Saunders Report. In fact, it's the main reason I subscribe. I have never been to a psychologist...

Jul 23, 20203 min read

So long, John. Thanks for everything.**

There are only two possible answers when it comes to the saddest country music song of all time: it's either I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry...

Jun 30, 20203 min read

When a man loves his country, he won't wait until a book deal to try to save it.

Sorry, Michael. You are no longer the worst "Bolton" in the world. No, music lovers have not pardoned the croakin' crooner for...

Jun 23, 20204 min read

Whose mama? It Aunt Jemima.

Knock knock. Who's there? Ain'tcha. Ain'tcha who? Ain'tcha mama on the pancake box? When you heard that joke in Rockingham as kids in the...

Jun 9, 20203 min read

While other cities erupted, peace reigned in Durham. No bull.

It might've been the weirdest telephone call ever received. It definitely led to the weirdest call ever made. Back in the 1990s, when...

May 29, 20203 min read

Grocery shopping in the time of 'Rona

Perhaps it was my 10-year-old brain convincing me that I had a cloak of invisibility, and that if I walked around inside the A&P while...

May 7, 20204 min read

Despite the Rona, they're gonna buy those shoes, get those hairdos.

What I did for a pair of basketball sneakers is embarrassing to think about even now, 47 years later. For some inexplicable reason,...

Apr 17, 20203 min read

We can't step out right now, but we can still StepUp.

When Kevin Wood left his family behind in Atlanta and came to Durham last December, he was, he said, "stepping out on faith" that he...

Apr 10, 20204 min read

We all need somebody to lean on right about now.

When Lewis Grizzard was a renowned columnist at the Atlanta Constitution and I was holding down the obit desk there, he wrote a column...