By Elliott Potter and Jake Potter Elliott Potter and his son Jake Potter reside in North Carolina. Their father-son relationship now extends to Jake’s 4-year-old son, Landon. After getting together for a recent trip to Florida for music and beach therapy, Elliott, 65, and Jake, 35,...
By Elliott Potter and Jake Potter Elliott Potter and his son Jake Potter reside in different regions of North Carolina. Their 35-year father-son relationship has expanded to include Jake’s son, Landon, who turned 4 in January. After getting together for a recent trip to Florida for...
By Elliott Potter and Jake Potter Elliott Potter and his son Jake Potter live roughly 100 miles apart in North Carolina. After going together on a recent trip to Florida for music and beach therapy, Elliott and Jake wrote a series of personal reflections on the...
By Alexia McKay It’s 2021, and representation still matters—perhaps more than ever. I don’t consider myself to be the poster image for all young, Black women. However, as a Black journalist—and now publisher—I do consider my position as a small corner of a larger picture that...
By Elliott Potter April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is part of a series featuring services offered for child-abuse survivors at the Child Advocacy Center of Onslow County in Jacksonville, N.C. When it comes to helping children through the investigations of physical, sexual and...
By Elliott Potter April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is part of a series featuring services offered for child-abuse survivors at the Child Advocacy Center of Onslow County in Jacksonville, N.C. In Onslow County in southeastern North Carolina, the Child Advocacy Center is the hub...
By Patricia Daly I began a countdown to retirement five years before that welcomed day arrived on June 30, 2011. I could not wait to be free of alarm clocks, office politics and the pervasive lack of time to have fun, travel and pursue personal interests....
By Patricia Daly When I retired in 2011, I wanted to fulfill a long-suppressed desire to nurture my spiritual development and love of writing that had been put on hold for decades. I joined a writing group of friends and began sharing spiritual stories with them. After...
By Elliott Potter Dawn Rochelle grew up in Onslow County in southeastern North Carolina, in the impact zone of a prominent military presence. The county's demographics are shaped by Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, a sprawling installation where young service members train on land, in the...
It’s a new year, and after the uncertainty and lack of control most of us felt throughout 2020, this feels like the natural time to think about resetting ourselves—physically, emotionally, spiritually. If your health is top-of-mind these days, you’re not alone. But it can be confusing...