This “gorgeous, electric” collection of short stories is about the inner lives of young women during their transformative twenties, navigating relationships, nostalgia for the past, and the uncertainty of the future (Mary-Beth Hughes, author of The Ocean House). With this sharp and witty debut collection, author Kate Doyle captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre-occupied by nostalgia for past relationships—with friends, roommates, siblings—while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. In “That Is Shocking,” a college student relates a darkly funny story of romantic humiliation, one that skirts the parallel story of a friend she betrayed. In others, young women long for friends who have moved away, or moved on. In “Cinnamon Baseball Coyote” and other linked stories about siblings Helen, Evan, and Grace, their years of inside jokes and brutal tensions simmer over as the three spend a holiday season in an amusing whirl of rivalry and mutual attachment, and a generational gulf widens between them and their parents. Throughout, in stories both lyrical and haunting, young women search for ways to break free from the expectations of others and find a way to be in the world. Written with crystalline prose and sly humor, the stories in I Meant It Once build to complete a profoundly recognizable portrait of early adulthood and the ways in which seemingly incidental moments can come to define the stories we tell ourselves. For fans of Elif Batuman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood, and Melissa Bank, these stories about being young and adrift in today’s world go down easy and pack a big punch. Kate Doyle’s short stories have been published in No Tokens, Electric Literature, A Public Space, Split Lip, Wigleaf, and other publications. Originally from New England, she is a former bookseller […]

Friday Movies Each Friday night (except July) we’ll feature a live concert or movie on the Phil H. Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn). Food + beverage available for purchase. No outside alcohol is allowed to be brought inside the venue. All movies start at 8:30 pm (unless otherwise indicated below). Event lawn opens one hour before movie start time. August 18 DC League of Super-Pets September 1 Moana September 15 Avatar: The Way of the Water (Drive-In Movie) October 6 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Drive-In Movie) October 20 Hocus Pocus 2 (Drive-In Movie) Location: MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn) near 51 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC 27312

Have a cup of tea, a scone, and talk all things love with romance authors Martha Waters and Sarah Grunder Ruiz this Bookstore Romance Day. Martha Waters is the author of the Regency Vows series, which includes To Have and to Hoax, To Love and to Loathe, To Marry and to Meddle, To Swoon and to Spar, and To Woo and to Wed. She was born and raised in sunny South Florida and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in coastal Maine, where she works as a children’s librarian by day, and loves sundresses, gin cocktails, and traveling. Sarah Grunder Ruiz is a writer, educator, and karaoke enthusiast. Originally from South Florida, she now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and two children. She holds an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University, where she now teaches First-Year Writing. She is the author of two novels: Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships, and Luck and Last Resorts.

Check out the events at BMC Brewing! This week at bmc brewing... $5 pints.... Euchre... music... farmers' market under the solar panels... more music on the pavers....

In Psychedelics for Everyone, Matt Zemon provides readers with an inspiring foundation for understanding the profound transformational power of psychedelics. As psychiatric methods and medicines have advanced over the past fifty years, there is an entire group of possible treatment methodologies that the United States-and much of the Western world-has chosen to ignore and demonize. Despite this, there is a wide breadth of medical practitioners and indigenous healers who recognize the benefits of psychedelic treatment. Matt Zemon shares personal stories of his use of psychedelics, as well as presents curated, medically reviewed information from experts in the clinical use of psychedelics that is certain to make anyone reevaluate all they've been taught about drugs. In this book, you'll learn: How to microdose Where and how you can take psychedelics legally Techniques for psychedelic preparation and integration And much, much more... Matt Zemon, MSc, is a dedicated explorer of the inner world, and a passionate advocate for the thoughtful and responsible use of psychedelics. With a Master of Science in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health with honors from King’s College London, Matt has studied the effects of psychedelics on the mind and the potential for these experiences to serve as a catalyst for positive transformations.

Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our upcoming performers 8/23- Dave Quick 8/30- Steve Hobbs Trio 9/6- GLK Trio 9/13- Dave Quick 9/20- Tony Galiani 9/27- Lauren Meehan

All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years became increasingly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees.​ The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent. As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Step by step, day by day, despite facing headwinds from skeptical neighbors, environmental experts, and agricultural consultants, she’d assembled information. Her observations provided a framework, a timeline to explain the evidence she’d collected. The chemicals found in her water samples showed beyond any doubt that not only her farm, but her greater farming community, was at risk from toxic chemicals that travelled with rain water over the land, into water, and deep within the soil. Hilborn was given a front row seat to the insect apocalypse. Even as a scientist, she’d been unaware of the risks to life from some common agricultural chemicals. Her goal was to protect her farm and the animals who lived there. But first she had to convince her rural neighbors of the risk to their way of life, too. Elizabeth Hilborn, DVM is a veterinarian who specializes in honey bee medicine. An avid gardener and fruit grower, for decades she’s fed family and friends with fresh produce from her family’s farm in central North Carolina. Her new book: Restoring Eden, which will be published in August 2023, is her true story of loss, discovery, and recovery in her rural North Carolina community. Part detective story, part lyrical celebration of nature, Restoring Eden reveals hidden risks for a secure food future and for our well-being. Mari Trosclair, GRI, ABR, ePro and master gardener is a champion of sustainable agriculture and building. She has helped clients find rural or urban property for organic vegetable/flower farms, pasture […]

Friday Night Concerts + Movies Each Friday night (except July) we’ll feature a live concert or movie on the Phil H. Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn). Food + beverage available for purchase. No outside alcohol is allowed to be brought inside the venue. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Friday Concerts All concerts start at 7 pm (unless otherwise indicated below). Event lawn opens one hour before concert start time. Fall Music Series August 25 Megan Doss with special guest: Jordan Pickett September 8 Ace Party Band with special guest: School of Rock September 22 Tim Hair with Indian Outlaw featuring special guest: Petty Thieves October 13 Cat 5 with special guest: The Will McBride Group October 27 Tuesday’s Gone with special guest: Circle City Rockers Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Food, beer + wine available for purchase. Location: MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn) near 51 Mosaic Blvd, Pittsboro, NC 27312

Come enjoy reduced prices, including a 'seconds' table, at our end of summer pottery sale of beautiful handmade pottery by award-winning potter, Mark Hewitt. Enjoy an outing to our pottery/farm ~ tour the workshop, walk inside the kilns, and shop in the large barn/showroom full of lovely functional and decorative pottery. Here's the place to find that perfect, personal gift of a locally made comfy mug, elegant vase, or useful bowl for that special person or for you. Or grab some bargains to get a head start on your holiday shopping! Families are always welcome. We have swings!

If you're looking for that perfect leather gift to give to someone (or yourself), look for Ric's Leather at the Back to School BBQ at Raging Bull Harley Davidson, 300 Muldee Street in Durham, NC.

Vino!! Wine Shop, along with our friends at Postal Fish Company and City Tap Bar, are more than excited to announce our FIRST EVER PROGRESSIVE DINNER in Pittsboro on Sunday, August 27 at 6 PM! For those who are unfamiliar with a progressive dinner, it is a dinner where each course is eaten in a different location. For this meal, there will be three courses. The first course, an appetizer with wine pairing, will be served at Vino Wine Shop. Guests will then proceed to Postal Fish Co. for the main course and wine pairing by Chef Bill Hartley. Finally, the meal will conclude with dessert and a cocktail at The City Tap. The first two courses will be under a time constraint, in order to allow Postal and The City Tap to prepare for the arrival of the guests. We cannot wait to share with you all a fun evening of food and libations with our downtown Pittsboro neighbors! Cost is $60 per person (plus tax). Space is limited to 30 people, so act fast! Please call (919-542-3922) or email (anna@vinowineshopnc.com) to make reservations. Credit card information must be provided in order to hold the reservation. Reservations must be received no later than Thursday, August 24 at 3 PM. Menu is attached!

Visit with Wolfspeed at our next Supplier Day! This gathering will feature representatives from our business units available to discuss procurement requirements for all local businesses wanting to work with us at our new John Palmour Manufacturing Center for Silicon Carbide in Siler City. Multiple departments will be available including MRO, Information Technology, Professional Services, Construction Services, Travel, Logistics, and more. We’re bringing our team and local suppliers together to identify potential opportunities for your partnership.

The history of NOW—its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission—told through the work of three members. In the summer of 1966, crammed into a DC hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had quietly pulled away attendees from the State Womens’ Commissions annual conference. Frustrated with government inertia, they laid out a vision for an organization to unite and advocate for all women. Inspired, challenged, skeptical, they debated the idea late into the night and the next day. By the end of the conference, the National Organization for Women was born. In The Women of NOW, the historian Katherine Turk chronicles the growth and influence of this foundational group through three relatively unknown core members: Aileen Hernandez, a federal official of Jamaican-American heritage; Mary Jean Collins, a working-class union organizer and Chicago Catholic; and Patricia Hill Burnett, a Michigan Republican and former beauty queen. From its inception in 1966 through the tumultuous training ground of the 1970s, NOW's feminism flooded the nation, shifted American culture and politics, and clashed with conservative forces, presaging our fractured national landscape. These women built an organization that was radical in its time, and built it to last. This is the first time anyone has told their story. Katherine Turk is the author of Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace, which was awarded the Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History from the Organization of American Historians. She is an Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Women are drawn to yoga for its physical benefits, its ability to induce calm and presence, and its offering of spiritual depth. Whole Mama Yoga offers a way to extend yoga’s gifts into the motherhood experience and offers guidance that eases not just physical discomforts but existential ones. Many moms and birth parents balance boundless love and boredom, overwhelming joy and moments of isolation, self-confidence and self-doubt. Yoga provides an opportunity to practice the much needed body love and self-connection many parents need. Accessible to new yoga students, advanced yoga practitioners, and yoga teachers alike, Whole Mama Yoga is for parents with children of all ages. It is for those just thinking about beginning a family, those in the early stages of pregnancy, those getting close to labor and delivery, and for those new moms, who often feel harried and overwhelmed. This is a book to reference as children grow, change, and become little (and big) people. With yoga poses at the core of the text, yogi moms and instructors Alexandra DeSiato and Lauren Sacks offer helpful information in movement offerings that meet all moms and birth parents where they are. Organized into sections titled Relate, Move, Reflect, Wisdom, and Breathe, Whole Mama Yoga provides breathing techniques, suggestions for meditation and mantra, inspiring tidbits of yoga philosophy, funny and uplifting stories from yoga-moms, and journal prompts that allow readers to reflect on their own experience of parenthood. Alexandra DeSiato, MA, E-RYT 500 is an expert in yoga for the prenatal and postpartum time periods. She is recognized internationally for her work on creating (and helping others create) powerful and resonant themes in yoga classes. Her workshops have been offered nationally, including at Yogaville Ashram in Virginia and Kripala Yoga and Healing Arts Center in the Berkshires. Together with Lauren, she […]

Join us on Wednesdays on the Philip H. Kohl MOSAIC Family Commons (event lawn) for self-care sessions. Sunset Yoga hosted by Yoga Garden PBO on select Wednesdays in August, September and October. Specific times listed below. Sign-up required. August 30 (6 – 7 pm) Sign-up here September 13 (6 – 7 pm) Sign-up here September 27 (6 – 7 pm) Sign-up here October 11 (5:30 – 6:30 pm) Sign-up here October 25 (5:30 – 6:30 pm) Sign-up here

Jazz nights are continuing on Wednesdays so don't miss out on the chance to hear some great holiday jazz this month, sprinkled in alongside your classic favorites. Here are our upcoming performers 8/30- Steve Hobbs Trio 9/6- GLK Trio 9/13- Dave Quick 9/20- Tony Galiani 9/27- Lauren Meehan

The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover. The Wounds That Bind Us is the improbable true story of Kelley Shinn, an orphan at birth who loses her legs at the age of sixteen to a rare bacterial pathogen. She becomes an avid off-road racer and, as a single mother, attempts to drive around the globe in a Land Rover with her three-year-old daughter in tow to bring light to the plight of land mine survivors. With unflinching honesty, exceptional lyricism, and biting humor, Shinn (“that’s two Ns and no shins”) takes readers on a wild journey—literal and emotional—filled with striking characters and landscapes, heartbreaks, and hard-won insights, ultimately arriving at a place of profound redemption. Told with the energy and intensity of the adventure story it is, this terrifically rich and nuanced examination of a life is also a careful meditation on renewal—a remapping of the world. Guided by the narrator’s keen introspection and her ability to look resolutely at harrowing sorrows and still find hope, joy, and meaning, The Wounds That Bind Us will resonate deeply, long after the last page. Kelley Shinn lives on Ocracoke, North Carolina, a remote island twenty-six miles from the coast. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Fourth Genre, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and elsewhere. Belle Boggs is the author of The Gulf: A Novel; The Art of Waiting; and Mattaponi Queen: Stories. The Gulf was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novel Prize and longlisted for the Crook’s Corner prize. The Art of Waiting was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and was named a best book of the year by Kirkus, […]