July 2022 DEPARTMENTS 9 Simple Life
By Jim Dodson
12 Short Stories 14 Tea Leaf Astrologer
By Zora Stellanova
19 Life’s Funny
By Maria Johnson
22 The Omnivorous Reader
By Stephen E. Smith
25 Bookshelf 27 The Creators of N.C.
By Wiley Cash
32 Art of the State
By Liza Roberts
37 The Pleasures of Life Dept.
By Lindsay Moore
39 Home by Design
By Cynthia Adams
41 Birdwatch
By Susan Campbell
43 Wandering Billy
By Billy Ingram
82 Events Calendar 112 O.Henry Ending
By Barbara Rosson Davis
FEATURES 47
Evensong Poetry by Joseph Bathanti
49 Chicken 101 By David Claude Bailey With a wing and a prayer, you too can become a chicken tender 52
Man, Dog & Photog By Cassie Bustamante A 17-year-old uses a Nikon to explore the connection between people and pups
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Love in Bloom By Ross Howell Jr.
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Jasmine Joy and Big Puff By Ross Howell Jr.
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Billy and Lynne Lee’s Collaboration
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Almanac By Ashley Walshe
Dewberry Farm, a beautiful place for new beginnings Acupuncturist Heather Grant’s journey
By Cynthia Adams A Fisher Park fixer-upper serves as a canvas to a world-renowned sculptor and his creative wife
Cover photograph and photograph this page by A my Freeman Our cover features charming chicken coop keepers, sisters Aimory and Fletcher.
4 O.Henry
The Art & Soul of Greensboro
