Category: Non-Fiction

Greeking out in Durham

May 27, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in May 2014: I haven’t started spritzing everything with Windex. Yet. But I’m thinking about it. It’s been a wild year since I took the unprecedented (in my life) step of getting baptized, joining the Greek Orthodox Church so that I could marry into a (very) Greek family. Genetically,…

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Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

Remembering a man who wouldn’t quit

May 19, 2014May 19, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in May 2014: Michael Butts met his future wife in 2003 in the bookstore at Durham Technical Community College. She needed a cassette recorder for a class in anatomy and physiology. She couldn’t find one. The burly man – a formal football player at N.C. Central University who worked…

Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

No third-wheel feeling this Mother’s Day

May 10, 2014May 10, 2014 Brody No Comments

The kid loves his mom. I think he finds me amusing when I’m not steering him clear of one disaster or another. I know he likes to go on afternoon strolls and clings to my neck when I carry him. He enjoys sneaking pens out of my shirt pocket. He’s fascinated by any remote controls…

Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

Tired of people using RP as a political weapon

April 7, 2014April 7, 2014 Brody No Comments

When a political candidate’s favorite pastime is hunting down and killing animals with a rifle, no one bats an eye. If a candidate participated in a fraternity in college, unless something criminal happened, we really don’t care. Or maybe the candidate likes to re-enact famous battles of the U.S. Civil War? No big deal. But…

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