Recent Posts Tagged With 'west virginia'

• Oh Susanna!

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 20:25 in west virginia, fiction markets, granny sue, storyteller susanna holstein

  I know you're probably cringing at the title (or at having another goofy song stuck in your head), and to be honest so am I. But that's what came to my mind first, and there it stuck like a weak-willed fat fly standing knee-deep in the sticky corners...

• Mummies, Legs, and Locomotives

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 21:43 in west virginia, fiction markets, friday flash 55

  Embalming's no fun when it requires arsenic and mercury. Wasn't this the Industrial Age? There must be a better way, so he knocked at the Insane Asylum. "When someone dies, can I have her?" he asked. "I need to experiment.""Are you crazy?" the direc...

• Mummy! Where do they all belong?

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 16:31 in west virginia, fiction markets, philippi mummies

  Over the weekend I mentioned going to see the Philippi Mummies (you can see more photos of them on the photoblog today), who were once inmates of the Asylum for the Insane that I also told you about a few weeks back.I'll tell you about the mummies an...

• Put Me In The Zoo

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 08:33 in zoo, west virginia, fiction markets, wolf, raccoon

  From where we are in West Virginia, we can drive in any direction and be on a Civil War site within minutes; yesterday we visited Philippi, site of that war's first land battle. Last week we drove through Gettysburg, and someday soon we'll be staying...

• Handy

  Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 18:33 in handwriting, west virginia, fiction markets

  Baino's post today made me laugh, as she's analysing her handwriting--even showing a bit for us in bright blue ink.What made me laugh was catching myself at a reversal of sorts earlier today, when I had to write a thank-you note. When I was a teenage...

• Sunday Driving

  Posted on Sunday July 19th, 2009 at 11:53 in west virginia, rural living

  Some of my favourite childhood memories are the Sunday drives our family would take every weekend in the summer. That's all they were: drives. The evening before, my father would have the fuel tank filled and check the car all over, from tyres to flu...

• Gone Monster Huntin'

  Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 16:21 in west virginia, fiction markets, flatwoods monster

  We went wandering yesterday, and ended up at an outlet mall that sold Fiestaware, Corning, books and power tools. But the Fiestaware and power tools weren't what we were looking for.In the past week or so we've seen some interesting "welcome to" town...

• Tercentenary and Morgantown walkies

  Posted on Sunday July 12th, 2009 at 18:37 in west virginia, fiction markets, are you singing

  I'm loving West Virginia more each day: they even do cities right, in my opinion. We drove up to Morgantown near the Pennsylvania border and found a lovely riverside park to walk along, with a playground at the end for the kids to enjoy. Even the wee...

• Just Like Starting Over

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 11:34 in autism, west virginia, fiction markets, special needs kids

  Today was our son's last day of school for the summer, and therefore the official beginning of our summer holidays.We're so rural that it was also his last day in the 'junior' side of the schoolhouse, the schoolhouse having only two rooms to it. It's...