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As of today, this blog will move down the street to WordPress because this one has been hacked and robbed of all posts in 2016 and 2015 (mor...

No. 6: Being scared to do things. Facebook friend Sonya Chappelear posted a longer version of the following ( here ) this morning and I ...

You will note that this is my first blog post since Dec. 31, 2014, although that is far from true. I wrote well over 1,000 posts in the time...

I had lunch and a photo shoot with my girls today at the Hotel Roanoke. That's Leah at the left with her niece Ann next to me and Ann...

I just placed an order for what I hope will be the best hiking boots I've ever had. And maybe the last I'll ever need. They are Berg...

Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris: A dying breed? "... the world has more stories than it needs or wants to pay for. In 20...

Here it is, Mother Smith's World Famous Cabbage Stew with Ham (and celery, leeks, carrots, onions, potatoes, sea salt and bits of a ba...

This 1955 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider--actually one very much like it--sat on the lot, under a shed, at Ed Orr Motors on Biltmore Avenue i...

Deer prints over hiking boot prints: Who's chasing whom? Moss, up close and personal. These closeups are from a little hike-et...

This is the straight view of the Pampettes. This is Oz being Oz. This is Oz being Dr. Cool Dude. Sophisticated Madeline. I...

OK, so here are the new glasses, picked up a couple of hours ago at the glasses shop. They seem to be working well, unlike their previous ...

The 1,000-foot-high falls overlooks Leah as she climbs. Even in winter, it's gorgeous. My friend Leah Weiss and I began what I h...

This is a new installation by my artist friend Paul Clements in Lynchburg, downtown near the river. The metal silhouettes represent the ...

This was the scene in Lynchburg last night. Can't 'splain it, Lucy, but I could sit there for a goodly while and gawk at it. Hmmmm...

Women in Florida might as well yell at the wall. As Juliet Macur writes in her indictment of Florida State football in this morning'...

Who gets hathead at 8 a.m.? Hint: me. OK, so now the Santa wait begins. It's rainy and warmish in Virginia and it feels like neither...

Time was when TV watching didn't involve political statements. "America’s dominant news source is television, and the disparity...

"Women at the margins are the ones who bear the brunt of the harshest realities, including sexual violence, and they do so with the ...

The newlyweds: Charisse and Jeff My friends Jeffrey Rigdon and Charisse Asvor had a Viking wedding on Mill Mountain in Roanoke today. T...