MIKE WILSON
Mike Wilson: I think I caught a case of Olympic fever
With the Olympics back in the news, as talk continues about the 2024 Games in Paris, it’s got me thinking. Now I can calmly reflect ...
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Mike Wilson: The fugitive: A lesson in applied calculus
When my wife and I decided to dock our powerboat at Lake Norman for a bit, I was thrilled to discover that the lake had ...
by Mike Wilson, Friday, July 21, 2023 11:00 am
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Mike Wilson: Tailrace Tales
More the gourmand than the gourmet, I have never been especially intrigued by all those stories in outdoor magazines about pursuing tiny native cutthroats in ...
by Mike Wilson, Friday, July 14, 2023 11:00 am
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Mike Wilson: I have met the enemy, and it is ice cream
One of my earliest memories is dutifully sitting atop a cold, damp folded towel on top of the ice cream maker while Granddaddy turned the ...
by Mike Wilson, Friday, July 7, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: A Concise Guide to Modern Granddadding
There is nothing in this life quite like that moment when you hold a newborn grandchild for the first time. You look into each other’s ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, June 29, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: Happy 100th birthday, Mr. Enfield!
As I get along in years, I find myself consciously checking items off my “bucket list” like many others, I suppose. Our 40th anniversary trip ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, June 22, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: Words we need
As a linguist and foreign language teacher, I have spent the better part of a half century learning and teaching Spanish and Portuguese and comparing ...
by Mike Wilson, Wednesday, May 31, 2023 1:35 pm
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Mike Wilson: Gar in the boat
I guess you can say I had a way of getting myself into unusual predicaments when I was a boy because I was so curious ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, May 25, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: Where there’s a will, there’s a Wayne
I pretty much retired from dove hunting when the state opened up the “resident goose season” several years ago after reflecting that a single goose ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, May 18, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: The dusty old stuff on my middle shelf
In my office at the college there is a large bookcase right behind my desk that houses four decades’ worth of accumulated books. Now most ...