To date in Southern Pines, I’ve found a proper Bistro (Chef Warren’s), as well as a proper coffee shop (Flynne’s Coffee Bar) and a proper breakfast cafe (Betsy’s Crepes). And get this … the crepes at Betsy’s are optionally gluten-free! Southern Pines feels to me like a mini-Asheville, only with retirees instead of hippies, and […]
According to City-Data.com, Sanford is a town of roughly 30,000. It doesn’t feel that big, though. A 15-minute walk from city center to the James House; the grocery store another ten minutes beyond. Depot Park, La Dolce Vita Pizzeria, Cafe 121, the Antique Mall … all my usual haunts, all within a three-block radius. And […]
This whole business of people harboring dangerous predators within predation range of other people’s homes leaves me kind of speechless. Lions, for instance. Fully-grown, fully-functional lions, rather annoyed I should think by the sudden, severe shortage of water buffalo in their vicinity. I listened to part of a Diane Rehm Show interview yesterday with Zuzana […]
