Posts by designloud
The Love of Fishing
A friend called and said come see this amazing new boat. An offer to spend a couple of hours out of the office on a sunny spring day is too good to pass up so before long the crew is flying down the Intracoastal Waterway south from Wrightsville Marina. The 38-foot sportfish with triple 300…
Read MoreGettysburg National Military Park
A great summer destination as the nation turns 241 years old this July 4 is a guided tour of Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The park contains 3 965 acres of battlefields in and around the town of Gettysburg where 165 000 Southern and Northern soldiers met over a period of three days in…
Read MoreComplex Art and a Fascinating Life
Dennis Schaefer has served in the military and been a magazine editor and writer psychotherapist corporate man law student and a martial arts teacher achieving a fourth-degree black belt. He has lived in many places visited several others learned Chinese and taught himself quantum physics. He has set a goal to run 50 miles and…
Read MoreRain Gardens
Rain gardens prevent stormwater from running into and polluting surrounding waterways.
Read MoreFace to Face
Meet some of coastal North Carolina’s dedicated spearfishermen who take pride in hunting for fish strategically with no bycatch.
Read MoreUnderwater Museum
The shipwreck of a Civil War-era blockade runner Condor just off Fort Fisher is the state’s first heritage dive site.
Read MoreHealing Trees
While the Medac building’s unique fa�ade a mix of patina copper panels and glass has become a landmark in the Porters Neck area the medical building’s interior architecture truly created something special for the practices — an intimate and warm commercial interior infused with nature and natural daylight rather than a typically sterile environment. “We…
Read MoreHealth boosters
Yogurt & sauerkraut. Tempeh & kimchi. Miso & kefir. They come from different parts of the world — Europe Asia the Middle East — and are made from different base foods — milk cabbage soybeans. But this seemingly disparate group shares something in common. All are fermented foods touted for their health benefits. Fermented foods…
Read MoreShorts
Ocean Friendly Certified Establishments Plastic straws are as ubiquitous as knives and forks at all restaurants. But while the silverware is reused the straws become trash. More than 500 million straws are used a day in the United States. Because they don’t biodegrade they often end up in the ocean and are ingested by marine…
Read MoreStranded and Hungry
When I was a kid my family camped on Masonboro Island. On the last day when we were packed up and ready to leave the sky filled with tumultuous-looking clouds that barreled toward us like a herd of bulls. Almost simultaneously we realized the tide had gone out and our boat was beached. We were…
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