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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Today’s newspaper column: “Please, never close school again”
Today’s column in The Greenville News is particularly appropriate, even if I date myself. When I wrote it, my girls had missed four days of school due to snow, ice, and brutal cold: today marks the ninth school day they’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Katherine Scott Crawford, newspaper column, parenting, SC, school's out, snow, snow days, Southern snow, The Greenville News, weather, WNC, writing
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Photos from Western North Carolina’s “Winter Event”
Yesterday, we woke up to a surprise snowfall of about 5 inches. Actually, a little after midnight the night before last, I noticed that it was snowing. I watched the snow illuminated in the street light across the street, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brevard, childhood, Katherine Scott Crawford, NC, parenting, Remus, snow, snow day, snow event, snow in the South, Southern snow, winter storm
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Today’s newspaper column: “King’s ‘Letter’ holds lessons to remember”
Today’s column in The Greenville News is about the best letter I’ve ever read–Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”–and why I teach it to my college students each semester. February is also Black History Month, of course, so … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, Alabama, argument, Birmingham, Black History Month, desegregation, English, higher ed, Jr, Katherine Scott Crawford, Letter from Birmingham Jail, literature, Martin Luther King, MLK, newspaper column, parenting, persuasion, rhetoric, segregation, students, teaching, The Greenville News
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The weather outside is frightful …
This week has been wild: snow, sleet and ice here in Western North Carolina, with temperatures soon to dip into the negative degrees. As I type, it’s snowing again in a bluster outside my living room window. I LOVE it. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic cold, bitter cold, bronchitis, flu, ice, Katherine Scott Crawford, kids inside, school cancelled, sleet, snow, snow day, Transylvania County, winter storm, WNC
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For Valentine’s Day, Five of the Places I Love
Today is Friday the 13th. We had a two-hour school delay today in Western North Carolina for cold. (Yep: cold.) I’m wearing fleece pants and my Sorel snow boots. I didn’t brush my hair before dropping my older daughter at … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 favorite places, Boulder, Boulder Hot Springs, Coffee Corner, daughters, diner, dogs, February, hiking, hot springs, Katherine Scott Crawford, love, Montana, Montpelier, mule deer, parenting, Pisgah National forest, Scout, Thrift Cove Trail, trail running, Valentine's Day, Valentines Day 2015, Vermont, WNC
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Today’s newspaper column: “On Valentine’s Day, ‘All you need is love'”
Today’s column in The Greenville News is all about love. Because love is all there is. It’s easy. To read, click here. To hum along with the Beatles all morning long, click below. All You Need is Love
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Tagged all you need is love, Beatles, children, Emily Dickinson, family, first love, Joan Crawford, Katherine Scott Crawford, love, newspaper column, parenting, poetry, romance, St. Valentine, The Greenville News, Valentine's Day, William Shakespeare, young love
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Today’s column: “The family flu: This, too, shall pass — won’t it?”
Today’s column in The Greenville News is all about our recent–and continued–bout with the family flu. To read, click here. Healthy ones, may the force be with you!
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Tagged dealing with flu, elderberry, family, flu, flu 2015, Greenville, influenza, Katherine Scott Crawford, newspaper column, parenting, SC, sick kids, The Greenville News, WNC
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Buffalo Chicken Dip (yay!) for the (meh) Super Bowl
So, I’m a college football girl, and don’t really care about the Super Bowl. However, I know a lot of folks do! Plus, I’m okay with any excuse to make football food. Football food is scrumptious. Here’s my favorite chicken … Continue reading
