I was born and raised here, but married a man from North Carolina and lived there with him for several years. Once I had a child, West Virginia called to me like I wouldn’t have believed.
Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If you’re from here, […]
This morning on Twitter, local blogger Bill Gardner (aka Oncee) asked if anyone was going to the next Underground Kitchen. Having never heard of it, I had to click his link.
I was immediately charmed by the idea – I’d never heard of such a thing! They’re not a restaurant. According to their website, […]
OK, the topic of the day is what the average American pictures when they think of a West Virginian and what we can do to improve that image. Just to be sure addressing the real issue, I wrote a post asking some friends from across the United States to let me know what they […]
We live in and love West Virginia. Somehow others don’t always see us the way we see us. Some mistaken ideas about West Virginia have spread around the country to people who don’t really know us.
Well, we don’t have to accept that. The wonderful thing about blogging is that we create our own media.
Lead […]
I have been given a writing assignment by my friend Jason Keeling at A Better West Virginia. OK, maybe it’s not an assignment. It’s more like we’re on a mission.
West Virginia gets a bad rap sometimes. Even the vice president made fun of us recently.
Eh. He’s wrong and […]
Tired of paying a fortune in gas? Want to take the family somewhere fun but close? You need a “Staycation”, a vacation in West Virginia — someplace you can get to with just one tank of gas. First stop, Ace Adventure Center!
The name says it all — this is the top of […]
A little while ago, a friend of mine named Chris Griffith all the way down in Florida ran in a Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. She and I have never met, but we are good friends online and she means the world to me. She had many choices about who she […]
This video is about 10 minutes long but is very much worth the watch. If you had limited time left, what attitude would you have towards life? What lessons would you want to pass on?
I really can’t add much to this one, the video says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIyt8oSLVs
The movie “Shelter” is supposed to be a horror/thriller and at least part of it takes place in West Virginia. Casting calls have been sent out for this movie, and that’s why I’m writing.
The Associated Press says the casting call asked for people “who are extraordinarily tall or short, with unusual body […]
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