Sarah's Hurricane, WV Real Estate Blog

Many communities are plagued with drug problems, and mine is not immune either.  When I volunteered at the animal shelter, I discovered that even our pets suffer when these crimes are committed.Animal shelters are required to keep a certain number of cages empty, in order to have room to take in ...

Do you know some kids who could stand to spend a little time outdoors?  There are some “camperships” (fully paid weeks of camp) to YMCA Camp Horseshoe available to kids that meet certain criteria.  The camp runs from July 15-21 and again Jully 22-28 and is for boys and girls ages 7 -12.  Here’s ...

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think.  Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.  ~A.A. Milne Anticipation is the ke...

The Sternwheel Regatta is how West Virginia says good-bye to summer. Tens of thousands of us (and our closest friends) get together in our lovely capitol city of Charleston to party alongside the beautiful Kanawha River. The Sternwheelers are a big draw, and you'll see plenty of action out on the...

I wrote a post the other day that I almost didn’t publish because it mentioned my daughter’s disabilities, if only in passing.  It wasn’t that I’m embarrassed in any way by her, in fact quite the opposite.  She is amazing.  But I’ll get to that. I almost didn’t post it because sometimes people s...

As he sat on the launch pad in Apollo 7, about to become the first American to go into space, Alan Shepherd was thinking about how every single piece of his ship was built by the low bidder. And he prayed, “Please, dear God, don’t let me screw up.” Are our heroes really all that different from t...

Before I transitioned back into working from being a stay at home Mom, I used to volunteer at the Putnam Animal Relief Center.  I walked dogs every Friday, took pictures of them and the cats and then went home and entered all the critters on their website, trying to help them get homes. When I f...

Woo-Hoo Sally mentioned to me in a comment that maybe she should write about her family’s history.  She’s Japanese on her Mom’s side.  Well, I’m Japanese on my exchange student/daughter’s side.  ;o)  OK, so I can’t really count that.  But I can talk about it so you can see just how small the worl...

I remember when I first learned to read.  Those squiggly letters suddenly snapped into place and made words in my head.  It was like magic. I felt POWERFUL.  I was in Kindergarten, and I knew right then that I could have anything in the world I wanted.  Everything out there could be mine, becaus...

Every year on the Fourth of July, our local Tri-County YMCA holds a blood drive for the American Red Cross.  Every year for the last four years, I’ve been there to donate.  (And at other times throughout the year, too!) It’s America’s birthday, and maybe I can’t get a gift for the whole country,...