Tag: Appalachia
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Welcome, Babies!
Three-minute read Looking out my living room window recently, I was reminded of an old-time hospital maternity ward, where well-wishers gathered behind glass to view sleepy, swaddled newborns. Outside my window there were babies galore, but they weren’t sleepy or swaddled; they were hopping about, shadowing their parents, already learning so much about the world. …
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A West Virginia Paradise
Tucked away, on the outskirts of Morgantown, is a paradise of colorful gardens, wooded trails, grassy wetlands, and quiet streams. Here, you will lose yourself amid countless blooms, tall oaks and hemlocks, songbirds, butterflies, and dragonflies.
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Boots on the Ground
3.5-minute read On a recent drive to the North Carolina coast, to spend time at the beach with my family, I stopped in Chapel Hill to visit a cousin and cousin-in-law, John and Cathy, whom I had not seen in nearly two decades. Later, on my way back to West Virginia, I stopped in Raleigh…
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A Lift Off…A Letting Go
In my last post, about the recent emergence of Magicicada Brood XIV, I suggested that at any moment, we, too, can shed our outgrown “exoskeletons,” flex new wings, and take flight into the next chapter of our lives. For me, this evolution often involves letting go of “things.”
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Emergence
(Three-minute read) As I write this post, I hear a sound outside that defies words. Not a buzz. Not a hum, or even a thrum. I might liken it to the non-stop cheering of a faraway crowd. Indeed, there is a fervor, a fever, to it. Though I don’t know how to describe the sound,…
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Sheila McEntee 