Tag: Wes Platt

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…

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Two war stories, both of D-Day

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 Brody No Comments

The following article that I wrote appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on June 5, 1994, in honor of the 50th anniversary of D-Day: Villagers cried out “Liberate! Liberate!” when the smelly, unshaven U.S. paratrooper limped into town alone. Private Joe Clancy, a member of the 82nd Airborne’s 307th Engineers, warned them that their celebration…

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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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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…

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