Original post can be found on Outdoors Inspired by John Baranowski. I enjoy talking to hikers along the trail. Most hikers whether day,...

When I was a child, my dad used to take me to Lexington quite often. He did alot of research and reading about Robert E. Lee and we would...

April 2024 Jon Murrill’s Lady Appalachia in Vinton Absolutely amazing! Check out more of his work on Insta @jonmdraws (June 2023)...

My daughter's sixteenth birthday was in November and she loves going to the Roanoke Pinball Museum with her dad, so we rented it for her...

I didn’t know why I wrote the novel Paradise until I had gained what I did gain on its last day of writing. Then I knew. My long...

When I wrote my latest novel, A Haunting on Dunbar Lane , I was enjoying life on the sunny coast of Florida, where we feast on grilled...

My husband Joe and I have lived in Virginia for more than thirty-four years. We were both born and raised in Iowa, but after our wedding...

After two years of going nowhere fast, due to COVID-19, my husband and I booked international flights and worked with a tour consultant...