Dodging storms, reaching goals in Cancun
A beer drinker I have never been, but when I recently slipped into Cancun right between two category 5 hurricanes, I probably had more beer in one week than I have had my entire life. Since I don't like beer, that's not saying much.

Find a church with basics of worshipping, love for one another
There's been a lot of buzz lately about the new "I-Phone." This new cell phone also stores your music and pictures while also letting you watch movies.

Many factors involved when mothers kill
I don' t know what happened in Ocean City, but my instincts tell me this case goes much deeper than we realize. And as a member of the media, I think it' s time we understand the underlying issues, so we can provide better coverage of these cases.

Church can help cope with life's speed bumps
Each night my wife and I walk our dogs up the alley behind our house. Although it is typically nighttime when we go, we have no trouble finding our way along the darkened roadway. That is until I hit the speed-bump. It happens every time I make this trek in the dark, and even sometimes in the day.

Passing up the other, other white meat
They say you are what you eat. Okay, I'll buy that. For our culture has become as saturated with fatty oils as the French fries from any of your local fast-food establishments.

Empowered by surviving rape, abuse
For a month that's designed to usher in the lovely colors and fragrant scents of spring, April sure has gotten stuck with some pretty depressing causes.

Chasing dreams among the clouds
You know it's going to be a bad day when ... your cosmetic case falls into the toilet. The hardest part was watching all that money go down the drain. Literally.

Back to Buckhannon, and Sago Mine
My parents bought a pre-Civil War house, where much of my childhood was spent. We lived less than a mile from the Orrel Mine in Newburg, W.Va., where 39 coal miners died in an explosion on Jan. 21, 1886.