Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.

I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave.

....mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from useless. dreads. In june they are walls of white rhodendron blossom. In autumn the forests set themselves afflame with color. Even winter has its icy charms.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.