Category: Things to do in NC
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It happened! Seemingly over night the leaves changed and suddenly the Smokies were changing colors…it’s time to bust out the fall things to do list 🎃
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Happy February, friends. I hope the month of love has been kind to you so far.
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Our new Youtube Channel is live! I invite you to our Youtube channel: The Greene Home. And that’s exactly what our channel is: our home, our life, and everything starting over entails since we became Bryson City locals. Plus, all the great places we’re discovering.
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My writer’s block has been on another level. Lately, all I can manage to write is my personal journal to let out some of the angst I’ve been feeling. Moving has been hard. It’s exciting, and I love North Carolina, but there are parts of moving that have felt downright painful. Some days I try…
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This week, I was clearing out my iphone photos because I reached a scary storage capacity. Upon my deleting frenzy, I stumbled on these photos of our first official drive to Asheville, North Carolina from Miami, Florida. They took me back to that excited, hopeful feeling we had packing our things and taking that big…
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We’ve had a BUSY few months here in Bryson City, North Carolina transforming our once gray house into a crisp, fresh coat of marshmallow white. It’s been our fist real effort of changing things up and man, was it laborious! There is a surprising presence that comes with this type of manual work. I’m a…
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We made it! It’s spring and we are past our first winter here. I’m certain locals will probably laugh but it’s a milestone for us to be here. Our porch is finally an inviting place where the breeze is a gentle kiss on our cheeks, the birds chirp in a melody signifying they’re back and…
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I’ve picked up a habit from back in my journalism days at UF. My first writing teacher there challenged us to become observers finding the interesting story in our day-to-day surroundings. In one particular exercise, she tasked us to leave class and go walk around campus to find a story. The direction was simple: observe…
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Since relocating to North Carolina, I’ve had friends from South Florida reach out and ask about the possibility of moving here. So I felt compelled to share my experience.