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It’s Not the Weight Gain . . . it’s the Redistribution!
As I'm approaching 50 I'm realizing there are quite a few things about aging that no one tells you. I've heard plenty of talk about the way pounds creep on with middle age, so I've tried to keep an eye out for that. And I'm pleased to say that I actually weigh a few...
Appalachian Thursday – Time to Plant the Garden
I still have to work hard to resist them. The catalogs filled with beautiful, full-color images of corn and strawberries and squash and green beans . . . The displays of candy-colored seed packets at the store . . . I don’t even have a garden. Oh, sometimes I grow a...
Facing Fears . . . By Accident
Over the weekend Thistle and I headed out for our usual hike. It was a rainy Saturday, but dogs don’t much care about a little wet and neither do I (so long as it’s just a little!). There was only one other car in the parking area and it belonged to a family with two...
Appalachian Thursday – Mother’s Day Started in WV
Yup. That's right. The woman who invented Mother's Day was born in Grafton, WV. Anna Jarvis campaigned for the holiday in honor of her own mother Anna Reeves Jarvis. Mother Anna was a social activist who organized Mother's Day Work Clubs during the second half of the...
When Silence Sings – Preorder
I don't often flat out promote my books on this blog. I always have some links and refer to my stories with some regularity, but I'm rarely so blunt as to remind you that, well, you can buy my books. Yesterday was the start of the six-month countdown to the release of...
Appalachian Thursday – Kumbrabow
When Dad told stories about hunting in Kumbrabow State Forest I assumed the name was Native American. Not so. The story I'm currently writing (due out in late 2020) is set in Randolph County not far from where I grew up in WV. As I've researched the area I inevitably...
An Anniversary Reflection
On Saturday, my husband and I celebrated 23 years of marriage. That means, as of next year, I will have been married for half my life. My wedding day feels like yesterday AND a lifetime ago. It wasn't fancy--shoot, it was in the (literally) one-room country church I...
Appalachian Thursday – Legend of the Dogwood
I've always loved to bring wildflowers in the house. As kids we'd pick daffodils and forsythia, then wild azalea and lilacs, then daisies and black-eyed Susans. I even got in trouble for breaking off a branch from my mother's redbud tree! But we never cut dogwood....
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