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by Laura Stevens
So this morning something happened that has me pondering the truth. What is the truth? Can the truth be an abstraction or is it just a hard line, with no gray areas? Can something be true at one time, but later turn out to be false? Or, true to the best of your [...]
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Living in an agrarian environment we are keenly aware of the dangers and hardship that come with this lifestyle. We also benefit from being surrounded by the wonders of nature.
Coyotes are one of the many hardships it seems.
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Recently the conversation around the Sunday School table started out like this. “The [...]
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Dad’s been gone for a while… But mom was still here. She was the “place holder”, the one that kept us all from moving up one more branch in the Family Tree.
Mom left us today.
Today, we have a new place on the Family Tree. Not one that we were at all prepared for. [...]
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By Hope Cather
The Clarke County 4-H Program held their Achievement Banquet on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at the Ruritan Building on the Clarke County Fairgrounds. Emceed by 4-H members Michaela Garrison and Natalie Wright who were supported by Jake Grove and Hope Cather; the event is held every year to honor and encourage our [...]
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Everything you need — You already have!
I just received one of those flyers in the mail insisting that I must run out and purchase my very own unique Halloween costume, before they sell out.
Not.
We made a pact with ourselves when we moved into our new house (because we border on being ‘hoarders’) that we were [...]
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All this talk in the news about Tea Parties has me remembering the special occasion nights when my girls and I would share ‘a spot of tea’ (said with you pinky finger raised).
Dinner over, dishes done, backpacks packed and awaiting the mad exodus out the door in the morning. The girls would go up [...]
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My sister called the other day; “Do you remember Dad’s recipe for Hot Pepper Jam?”
Heavy sigh.
That recipe was one of those things that as youth we didn’t think to record. As we’ve gotten older, we try to put these details of or our past back together. Each of us has a different version of [...]
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Photo: Pam Lettie
On August 12th while my husband and I were on a family vacation, there was a grass fire in our yard just off Route 7. It is my understanding that the Blue Ridge Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company, the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center Fire Department, and local citizens responded to extinguish [...]
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Several years ago I read a wonderful book by Barbara Kingsolver, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life”. It introduced a new word into my vocabulary locovor – the basic premise is you that eat produce that is in season, and purchased from local vendors (ah, how blessed we are to live in [...]
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By J.C.Coon
Recently in quest of directions to Winchester Hospice, I inquired of a friend who had lived in Berryville for directions. She proceeded to share with us (hubby and I) “Well it’s over there by the Wal-Mart. Then go straight, the K-Mart is on your right, go past the KFC…. by then hubby [...]
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