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Mike Wilson: We all remember school days
Seeing the “back to school sales” in the paper the other day took me back to my own primary school days — and especially the ...
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Mike Wilson: The revenant, or lulling mallards
My good friend the Boss Man and I often joke about lulling our opponents into complacency during match play in golf by losing hole after ...
by Mike Wilson, Saturday, August 5, 2023 10:15 am
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Mike Wilson: I think I caught a case of Olympic fever
With the Olympics back in the news, as talk continues about the 2024 Games in Paris, it’s got me thinking. Now I can calmly reflect ...
by Mike Wilson, Saturday, July 29, 2023 11:41 am
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Mike Wilson: The fugitive: A lesson in applied calculus
When my wife and I decided to dock our powerboat at Lake Norman for a bit, I was thrilled to discover that the lake had ...
by Mike Wilson, Friday, July 21, 2023 11:30 am
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Mike Wilson: Tailrace tales
More the gourmand than the gourmet, I have never been especially intrigued by all those stories in outdoor magazines about pursuing tiny native cutthroats in ...
by Mike Wilson, Friday, July 14, 2023 11:00 am
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Mike Wilson: I have met the enemy, and it is ice cream
One of my earliest memories is dutifully sitting atop a cold, damp folded towel on top of the ice cream maker while Granddaddy turned the ...
by Mike Wilson, Friday, July 7, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: A concise guide to modern granddadding
There is nothing in this life quite like that moment when you hold a newborn grandchild for the first time. You look into each other’s ...
by Mike Wilson, Friday, June 30, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: Happy 100th birthday, Mr. Enfield!
As I get along in years, I find myself consciously checking items off my “bucket list” like many others, I suppose. Our 40th anniversary trip ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, June 22, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: Let me tell you about my father
My good father died of mesothelioma in 1992 at the age of 57 — much too young — on the same day as the richest ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, June 8, 2023 12:30 pm
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Mike Wilson: Words we need
As a linguist and foreign language teacher, I have spent the better part of a half century learning and teaching Spanish and Portuguese and comparing ...