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If you like what you read, check out my new prose section, with a sampling of a few things I've written over the years, but that don't really fit here in the blog. Hope you enjoy.

People get incredibly friendly the moment you hook a big fish. Too friendly, in fact. I know you mean well, dear stranger, and are merely...

One of the greatest things about going to the beach is much more subtle than sunshine and sand. It’s the little things. Oh, don’t get me...

Interesting read today from Buzzfeed, which apparently has a West Virginian on staff. I think I’ll weigh in on this one. 1. Your...

Wend magazine was, as a recent article says, a “publication(s) concerned not with vacations but with travel as a transcendental bridge...

Along about two years ago, a co-worker whose pop culture sensibilities I admire, pulled me aside. "Are you watching ‘Justified?" I...

One of the things I was most looking forward to in heading to Haiti this year was a return trip to The Good Shepherd School in Simon...

I can’t remember much about it, if you want to know the truth. Oh, I remember some things. But those things probably didn’t happen but...

Quick thoughts on MCA’s death. Just got off the phone with one my best buddies, who I called immediately after I heard. (Incidentally, he...

This link is to a great essay from NPR on the death of MTV, and whether the Real World killed it. It’s a much bigger issue than it seems...

(Story here.) I absolutely love the idea of a new adventure sport taking root in West Virginia. That means more people have the...