Looking at his house from the outside, it’s nondescript. Shrubs line the entrance to the house and a gate puts a small barrier between the sidewalk and the fron...
The concept of “making it big” always requires the artist to leave their home town. No act “makes it big” in West Virginia or Ohio. Perhaps, though, the idea of...
“What do you want to eat?”
“I don’t know. What do you want?”
“Let’s just order in.”
The above conversation takes place in countless homes across the Mid-Ohio Valley every night. Several people have posted on social media about board game spinner s...
Today, I’m not going to talk about the actual drug problem in West Virginia, or our wonderful town. We know it exists, we know it’s bad and we know we need a so...
This week, we celebrated a man whose life changed the very landscape of the nation we call home. As everyone knows, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a clergyman,...
My most vivid memories of beets come from when I was a kid and there would be a pickled beet on my plate. It's fuchsia juices would be running at an alarming rate toward other pieces of food on my plate (I can't stand for my food to touch) and I woul...
While walking through a department store the other day, I heard an associate telling a new hire that, “we move all of the workout clothing to the front because ...
The average American commutes 25.4 minutes to work daily. So, on average, they plan to spend at least an hour getting to and from work. For the zip code 26101, ...
Dishes clank, timers ding, laughter drifts in and out of the hallways of the house. Family members sit down to dinner and pass around casserole dishes warm and inviting with the smells of family recipes. As the heaps of mashed potatoes are piled on, ...
West Virginia, we need to talk. Again, you’ve become the victim of some really bad press because one of your residents decided she couldn’t handle basic human d...
Olivia is a W.Va. based wedding photographer consumed by wanderlust. She seeks beauty in everyday things. Olivia is a teacher, wife, mother, daughter, indulger of all things Disney and unabashedly obsessed with her fur-babies: Henry and Pepper.
