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Monthly Archives: July 2009

If You Build It…They Will Come

On my first morning in West Virginia, (or as it is commonly known, WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA), my mother took me up the street to see the start of a local farm movement.  Each Saturday a group of local growers and crafts people are gathering in a vacant lot on Main Street in Sisterville, WV....

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Wild and Wonderful

Several yeas back my family made the great migration to West Virginia, following some friends who were basically priced out of NJ by spiraling costs and taxes.  After many tries in different towns, my mother and her sisters settled down ironically in a picturesque town along the Ohio River called Sitstersville.  With a town ferry...

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Ask and You Shall Receive

I am currently on the US side of the big pond this week.  Taking a journey back home to the arms of friends and family.
Part of my journey of course included the long flight to Philadelphia and then on to Pittsburgh.  It was a great trip but I thought I should share some tricks on...

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The Cookie Man of Ladenburg

They all know him and drag their poor owners along the walk to get to this older gentleman who sits on a bench in town.  He is known as the cookie man to all canines of Ladenburg.
When I first moved to this village, he shared his bench with friends and a VERY large German Shepard...

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A Lesson in Persistence

This morning while on a walk with my two best fellas, we stopped a while to admire the colorful dragonflies flitting about the stream.  I told my husband I have given up trying to catch a photo of these guys.  They just seem to know when I am coming and feel my desperation for the...

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An Evening with the Gypsies

Last evening for my husband’s birthday I bought tickets for a local Gypsy Jazz concert.  Having just arrived from a visit to the US I know he would be jet lagged, but…this is jazz baby.  Having only just heard about it a few days before, the lovely people organizing the event allowed my husband and...

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Sharing Our Gifts and Strawberry Jam

I am a firm believer that we all have a certain skill that someone else might need.   You may say, “Oh no, not me…I can’t draw or paint”….I just think you haven’t discovered your special skill yet is all.   We all have something special  to contribute to the world.
Each day, just up the street from...

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