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A place to read all of The Sunday Columns


What's in a name? I'll have the special, please
The names of restaurants have always annoyed me. I don’t know why, that’s just how I’m wired.
Chuck Thompson
Sep 14, 2025


OPINION / HUMOR — Sometimes life will knock you off your feet; other times it’s a bad knee that sends you to the floor
When I was a kid, maybe early teens, I had a soccer coach tell me that when I’m 40 I’ll feel all the aches and pains from playing sports one day. 40? I didn’t care. That was a thousand years from now. Whatever, maybe — I believed him, but when I pictured a 40 something year old they looked the same as a 75 year old. “I’ll worry about it then,” I shrugged. Tonight was one of those rare nights I wanted to go to bed earlier than usual. I was taking a step to get into bed and m
Chuck Thompson
Sep 7, 2025


The best place to be
There’s no place quite like North Carolina.
Chuck Thompson
Aug 31, 2025


Mondays happen, we can’t stop ’em
Mondays remind me of The Gremlins
Chuck Thompson
Aug 24, 2025


A wrinkle in the season; what do we call this time in our lives?
If it’s not summer, and definitely not the cool feel of Fall, then, what is this abysmal period of discombobulating season called?
Chuck Thompson
Aug 17, 2025


The beach ain’t what it used to be
The Pavilion was a magical place — at one time, from what we were all told.
Chuck Thompson
Aug 10, 2025


The last of the old-fashioned American summers before technology ruined the fun
The last of the pre-internet pioneer children. The last of the “just yell for my mom, she will hear you!” When you fell off your bike and br
Chuck Thompson
Aug 3, 2025


Apocalypse dough
OPINION / HUMOR — Opening a cylinder can/ tube of ready-to-bake biscuits is the baking version of Russian Roulette.
Chuck Thompson
Jul 27, 2025


A truly golden age all but forgotten
It was a time of serious competition as the Baptist, Methodist & Presbyterians tried to beat one another to the old steak house.
Chuck Thompson
Jul 20, 2025


Apple bottom jeans
OPINION — Wash those apples carefully…
Chuck Thompson
Jul 13, 2025
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