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Now that the kids are grown up and starting off their own adventures, it is the ideal time for you to get out of the house and start to explore the world once again. You’ve done the standard family trips which were more work than fun and now you’re ready for traveling on your own terms. Why not try something a bit different?
I had never heard of a POD or even knew that everyone should have one until my mother’s death. Being an only child, when my mother died, I thought handling the estate wouldn’t be that hard. She had no real property and had less than $500 in her bank account. I was wrong. She had just recently
When you think of the word vegan what do you think of? California surfer dude who only drinks kombucha and east raw veggies all day long? What about vegetarian? A crunchy mom in New York or maybe some kind of health nut in Miami who only eats organic veggies and cashew cheese? According
Whether you are starting your college education or the parent of a college student, FANCHEST is a great way to show your team spirit.
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Natural and manmade disasters happen all over the world, often with very little warning. As global warming’s effect is making natural disasters more commonplace, it has become vital for disaster management solutions to evolve to meet the need. Between 2011 and 2013, the federal government spent over $135 billion on disaster relief. This
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If you spend some time walking around the downtown area of Huntington, West Virginia, you will discover several painted trains on display. Some are on the sidewalk and some are tucked into doorways of stores. These public sculptures provide for a great scavenger hunt throughout the city. The Artisans Express was created in 2015 by
Call them ramps, spring onions, ramsons, wild leeks or wild garlic, as Mamaw Flotie would say “hit don’t matter what ya call’em they’ll cure what ails ye”. Recipes for Spring Tonic and Ramp Shrimp Scampi included.
Hello, August! It’s time to share my favorites from Instagram for July. It’s is hard to pick just a few so, for July I focused more on the photograph than on the subject. These are spectacular photographs that remind you of something you would see in a book, magazine, or a museum. Be sure to
Mr. Anders had seen a family tossed out by hired men just hours after the father had been killed in a mine explosion. A woman heavy with child and four little children with nowhere to go tossed out like garbage. He could still hear her crying and screaming in Italian not understanding what was happening.
Anthony Boudain understood us like no outsider has. He saw the hearts and souls of the people of West Virginia. This world is a little less bright today for me as I mourn a friend I never actually met.
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All my life I have tried to be organized tried to be Martha Stewart, the Domestic Goddess. I even vacuumed in pearls once like June Cleaver. None of it worked. I was still me. Still a single mother, living in the hood, just trying to keep it all together with no clue of exactly what I was supposed to be doing.
I have been exploring the idea of Death in my writing. Death as a transformative power, a transition and how after death we must re-create ourselves. When I moved to West Virginia 25 years ago I experienced the death of a relationship and had to recreate myself. I changed a great deal from the person
