MILES TAGER

Please join Miles for his next ‘Writing for Change’ workshop on Sat., April 28 from 1-5 pm at Florence Thomas Art School, Inc. in West Jefferson. Call Florence Thomas Art School at 336-846-3827 to register. Then, on Sat., May 19, he will offer another 'Writing for Change' workshop at the Folly Beach Branch Library in Folly Beach. The cost per person for each workshop is $65. As part of his New River Writers/Ashley River Writers creative writing workshop offering, his workshop

Ever wondered what would happen if Jesus answered an ad for a basketball coach? Here's a tongue-in-cheek look at his leadership for a &q

Back in North Carolina an entire subculture has grown up around its most powerful entity, the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The old joke: what’s the state flower? The Highway Barrel. Another: why do highway workers sew their shirt pockets on upside down? To make it easier to lean on their shovels. The old bumper sticker: North Carolina, ‘First in Roads Last in Education’. You can pass by any work site, and whatever time or place you drive in the state you will

Award-winning author Miles Tager, author of Grandfather Mountain, A Profile will offer a ‘Writing for Change’ creative writing workshop from 12-4 p.m. at the Charleston Library Society, 164 King St., on Friday, Jan. 19. The workshop in Charleston at this prestigious venue is the first of many upcoming workshops in this historic city. “This workshop is not a class; there will be no grades or criticism,” Tager said. “Instruction will offer positive, practical techniques for bo

Award-winning author Miles Tager, author of Grandfather Mountain, A Profile will offer a ‘Writing for Change’ creative writing workshop at the Florence Thomas Art School from 1-5 p.m. on Friday, Nov 10. The Florence Thomas Art School is located in beautiful downtown West Jefferson, North Carolina. “This workshop is not a class; there will be no grades or criticism,” Tager said. “Instruction will offer positive, practical techniques for both beginning and developing writers t

Here's my take on the whole kneeling vs.standing controversy in NFL sports from an Episcopalian perspective. Those of you fellow Episcopalians will understand! Hope you enjoy! So this Episcopal Priest walks into a bar. There they sit, the regulars, hunched over their Bud Lites. But strangely not animated today, especially before such a big game. It’s thirty minutes before kickoff, and the TV pundits are blathering on with no one listening. Actually, he thought, the boys look

Award-winning author Miles Tager and his book, Grandfather Mountain, a Profile will be featured at the annual Waynesville Homegrown Author Fair on Sat. Sept. 23 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Waynesville. Miles will be one of almost 30 authors representing a wide variety of genres. His nonfiction book, Grandfather Mountain, A Profile, tracks the mountain’s history from foundation about 500 million years ago through evolutionary and human development