Justice Scalia’s wife asked Paula and me, Where are you from?
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I called my mother to tell I had settled in West Virginia. She wept.
I’ve lived in Shepherdstown for 50 years. I never moved here. I just ended up here.
How to blow up a 20-year friendship.
Many see this mythic tale as a tragedy. “The Fall.” I don’t.
The president did not hold up the presidential seal. He did not hold up the Declaration of Independence. Why the Bible?
What the young Trump learned in church.
I just met the most amazing person, and I can’t wait to tell you about her.
Five years ago, I swore I’d never write about my grandson ever again after the incident I related in Cowshit.
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