Tag: Durham

Not your run-of-the-mill horse derby

June 27, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: Rose Sandler wants to gallop in the footsteps of a conqueror. Centuries before Pony Express riders thundered across the untamed American West, Genghis Khan established a long-distance postal system using horse messengers in the Mongol steppe. Since 2009, a group known as The Adventurists has hosted…

Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

Finding strength in painful fragility

June 24, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: A baccarat crystal knob seems an unlikely nemesis. But that changes when your hands are fused into permanent fists. Megan Barron realized too late – about the time the stall door clicked shut – that she couldn’t manipulate the knob. She was in a fancy restaurant…

Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

Hello Kitty? Hello, parental camaraderie

June 6, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: “Ha-ha!” I was walking down Club Boulevard in front of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, pushing John Michael in the jogging stroller. I glanced to my left at the source of the laughter: A blond-haired man in his 20s, head poking out the…

Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

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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