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A Long Way from Harbor Island

A Long Way from Harbor Island

Every time something major is poised to happen in my life, my wife, Caitlin, and I split for the coast. This is a deliberate action.

Posted on January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction15 Minutes Read

Bramble in My Pasture

Bramble in My Pasture

With chainsaw, rake and machete, I set out to butcher the bramble.

Posted on December 1, 2020January 7, 2021 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction8 Minutes Read

Just Keep Living, Kid

Just Keep Living, Kid

There’s no telling how these things will play out, what his life will hold for him, because right now he’s just an idea, a bump in Caitlin’s stomach.

Posted on October 4, 2020October 5, 2020 by Mike SchoeffelIn Essays & Fiction10 Minutes Read

Back in the Outer Banks

Back in the Outer Banks

Childhood memories, skimboarding fails and mild thalassophobia on the Carolina coast.

Posted on July 15, 2020July 16, 2020 by Mike SchoeffelIn places12 Minutes Read

‘A man who should be celebrated’

‘A man who should be celebrated’

Just months before his death, Tommy Hall reflected upon the legacy he’d left in a small North Carolina town.

Posted on February 8, 2020March 23, 2020 by Mike SchoeffelIn People9 Minutes Read

‘The people were calling me that Old Catman’

‘The people were calling me that Old Catman’

Harold Sims (aka, the Catman) dedicated his life to creating the nation’s greatest house cat museum. Against all odds, he pulled it off.

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Mike SchoeffelIn People8 Minutes Read

Five ways of looking at The County Clash

Five ways of looking at The County Clash

Tucked away in the mountains of Western North Carolina is one of the most intense high school football rivalries in the nation.

Posted on August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 by Mike SchoeffelIn places9 Minutes Read

David Grasty’s School of Bushcraft and Survival

David Grasty’s School of Bushcraft and Survival

In the mountains of Western North Carolina, a 20-year Air Force veteran is teaching folks the ways of the wild.

Posted on July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 by Mike SchoeffelIn People5 Minutes Read

An Artist’s Life

An Artist’s Life

From her hard-scrabble days in Oklahoma and Texas to her golden years in Western North Carolina, Gretchen Clasby has always been an artist, through and through.

Posted on June 22, 2019June 24, 2019 by Mike SchoeffelIn People10 Minutes Read

Tales from the Mystical Yoga Form

Tales from the Mystical Yoga Form

The lessons Hanna Mathis learned during a pilgrimage to a Guatemalan yoga farm gave her a new perspective on American life.

Posted on June 15, 2019June 16, 2019 by Mike SchoeffelIn People10 Minutes Read

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