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UPDATED 3/1/2011
Short Speeches of North Carolina
by Jonathan Gugala
When I speak of my time in the Marine Corps, I say I was paid to sweat. Really, I was paid to listen.
I was a trombone player in the band, and although I sometimes played music while marching, mostly I stood at attention in a rectangle of other musicians under the eastern Carolina sun, sweating and listening to speeches...
by HB Koerner
My dad was a surf fisherman. He had a series of beach buggies to cover as much territory as he could. He’d let most of the air out of the tires, drive over the sand dunes, and make his way onto and down the beach. He had a series of old cars that he used for this; each one ran until it rusted out.
by Kirk Hathaway and Lu-Ann Perryman
“...and he went on to tell me how unsafe it was, how I didn’t know the waters or the markers.”
“How hard can it be?,” I said. “It’s just connect the dots, and you and Uncle Ray do it.”
by Kirk Hathaway
My younger son lives in Greece with his mother, and his first U.S. visit two years ago since he left his homeland at the age of one was exciting enough. He had a chance to see new countryside and meet a lot of my friends and family. He also had a chance it get a little closer to the above shrimp trawler than would be comfortable.
by Kirk Hathaway
The art of feeling the tangible drama of items lost and found is hardly restricted to a diver’s world, though the rewards of discovered treasure is published or promoted as one facet of this career.
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