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Oh. My.
Please don’t laugh.
As a favor for my family, I offered (aka was tricked) into caring for a cat, a huge moody orange beast that no one loves except my mother.
Long story short, the thing couldn’t quite make it to Holland to live in progressive societal bliss with the rest of the other kitties (two […]

So we’re mindlessly staring at the TV for the third hour now, watching as flight after flight from Heathrow is cancelled due to fog. Already 40,000 people are stranded in the airport. My sister, Kristen, and her husband, Chris, are due in to Amsterdam this afternoon if they ever make it off their layover in […]

I pulled past Harrisonburg’s mall today. Couple dozen people were standing, shivering outside one of its entrances. I watched from a stoplight as cops came and started ushering people away from the doors.
A bomb threat? Gas leak? Fight? Wasn’t sure. So I pulled in and started fishing for my cell phone. Gotta call the […]

Thanks for all the great feedback on this new experiment of mine. (Check the previous post for details. Basically, it’s an attempt to shop for only real, true essentials for a month. Food, minimal gas, medicine, cat food and toilet paper as of now.)
So far, it’s been easy. Probably too easy. I haven’t felt deprived […]

Thursday was my birthday. And on that day, and on a whim — for no reason I can comprehend, not yet, at least — I all at once decided that I won’t buy anything unnecessary for a month. Food, toilet paper and medicine make the cut. Anything else I think I need I’m not gonna […]

From Friday’s Daily News-Record:
Slain Man Mourned, Celebrated
‘We Love You, Fu,’ Proclaim Participants in Kelley Street Vigil
By Kelly Jasper

HARRISONBURG — They stood, faces lifted to the dark night, and shouted together, “We love you, Fu.” They stood, voices crying out “Amen,” as fireworks exploded on the corner of Kelley and Myrtle streets. They stood, as a […]

By Kelly Jasper
HARRISONBURG — SueZann Bosler is willing to go to jail to save the man who killed her father.
She fought for his life after he nearly took her own.
Even after her father’s murderer was removed from death row, Bosler and the advocacy group she co-founded continues to campaign for alternatives to the […]

I’m lovin this AP thing. Silly, sure. Plenty of people have mentioned that to me. But I can’t help it. Say my name in the same sentence as “the Associated Press” and I blush.
In two days, I’ve received dozens of phone calls about that railroad story. I stopped counting after the 30th phone call this […]