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The View

I’ve never found a better place to drink a cup of coffee and read a book than the porch of my family’s cabin in West Virginia. In fact, I’ve never found a more relaxing place, period. Because this is what you see when you look off of the porch. (Random side note: that tree that’s [...]

Memory spots

( Family )

On my family’s property in West Virginia/Pennsylvania, there’s a pond. It’s quite lovely, as you can see: A couple of years back, we scattered my dad’s ashes on the shore of the pond nearest the camera (which you can’t really see, because of the break in the side of the hill). So it’s kind of [...]

PRT

Morgantown, WV, which is very close to my family’s property on the Cheat Lake, has one of the cooler mass transit systems that I’ve ever seen (though I’ve never had reason to ride it). The PRT is discussed in today’s New York Times. It’s worth checking out, if only for the wow factor.