Most days, I link into the Internet. The summer of l995 was a little different. In most years, weekends and holidays take me often to North Carolina. John, who teaches in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Ian, who drives for the United Parcel Service, live in old Carrboro, a former small southern textile mill town now bordering Chapel Hill. The arts, crafts, and co-ops are strong, and the politics are local.
Opinions differ on whether that's good.
Sometimes, from North Carolina I go farther south for Sunday dinners or reunion picnics with my larger family living in or near Anderson, South Carolina, where I grew up.