Sarah's Hurricane, WV Real Estate Blog

This is one of my favorite commercials. I’m all for positive thinking, if you’ve read much of my blog I’m sure you already know that about me. I’m not about just thinking. You have to do. Don’t jump all over me about “The Secret”. I tried to read it. It kept telling me how great it was. Here’s a...

When my Mom was born, my Grandma gave her the middle name Jeannine, because it was the name of a girl in her favorite song from her teenage years, “Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time.”  When I was born, my Dad named me Sarah Jeannine.  Then I had a daughter.  I don’t share my children’s names onlin...

                                              This afternoon I had an Open House at one of our listings in St. Albans.  (You can see it on our Team Whitten blog if you're curious, nice older house with a great "watching the world go by" front porch.)  I took Teays Valley Road just because it make...

This summer, my daughters and I used to drive past a field of wildflowers every morning.  Some days we’d surprise a goldfinch and see that bright flash of eye-catching yellow flit past us.  Somehow the girls decided that seeing a goldfinch seemed like a good omen, so we always paid attention and...

Chicks Dig Scars. It’s true, we do. (Right, Ed? Jeff? Jason?) In a way, I think we all do. They’re badges of honor, they show the world you can go through something bad and still go on. I have scars of my own, inside and out. Each one is a memory of something that hurt me. Having the scars remin...

Just writing my memories.  It’s mostly for me, but this is a blog and 9-11 hit us all, so go on and relive it with me if you like. My Little One had just started preschool.  It was hard to be away from her, but at the same time I had a little FREEDOM and that was so nice.  I was driving over to ...

For years West Virginia had signs at our borders that said, "Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia." I liked that, we are kind of wild and wonderful around here, it's true.Then the signs said, "West Virginia, Open For Business." Well, yeah. Businesses are discovering that we have quality worke...

Today my Little One was “sick” (cough, cough) and had to stay home from school. She was feeling better by mid-morning (surprise) so we left to do a couple errands. I grabbed the camera and asked if she wanted to stop by Blenko Glass. She said she’d never been. How had I not taken my child to Ble...

On a post I did this morning about our Active Rain family of friends, Aziz Abdur-Raoof sent a shout out to someone he missed, Amber Riviere.  Wasn't that the sweetest thing?  (And welcome back, Amber!)And here I am, wondering about those Rainers who have slipped to the bottom of my Subscribed lis...

A good friend of mine from Active Rain sent me a book recently.  I haven’t finished it, but it’s already making me blog.  If you know me, I bet you’re not all that surprised. The book is “The Return of the Ragpicker” by Og Mandino, and there was a single line in the book, actually just part of a...