This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in December 2013: In the past two weeks, DeWarren K. Langley has faced the prospect of attending two funerals for murder victims he’s known. The first was for Patrick Danial Holmes, a 24-year-old man who Langley saw at a recent prison summit at a local church, where Holmes had…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in December 2013: Thursday was Walt Disney’s birthday. If defrosted today, he would be 112 years old. I owe him a lot, despite the fact that he left this world just a few months after my birth in 1966. Without him, I never would’ve come up with my irreverent…
I blame it on the Metamucil ad in my Facebook feed. The fiber supplement showed up the other day, right before Thanksgiving, and I got to thinking about how the advertisements that appear in the feed are most likely inspired by links and the content of status updates shared by users. Have I really started…
The following column appeared in The Herald-Sun in November 2013: Jesse McBane and Patricia Mann saw a future together. In 1971, he was an N.C. State student and she attended nursing school at Watts Hospital – now part of the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics…
