There are many things worth the wait. Autumn. Football games. A puppy. Warm cookies from the oven. Vacation. Christmas morning. A Ford Bronco? Most wait times can be measured in minutes, hours, days or weeks, maybe months. Bruce Morris must be a v.e.r.y. patient man. He waited more than two years for his Ford Bronco Raptor. The Interminable Wait The backstory goes to July 2020 when his friend, Matthew Kesler, planned to order a new Bronco and convinced Bruce that “he works …
For nearly 150 years, one congregation has worshipped behind stained glass windows, a distinguishable red door, and what locals know as Hokie stone. They’ve sat in the same pews and listened to …
What could bring the enthusiastic sounds of spring, a jaunty fiddle, a peppy piano, and folks brigading around in the dead of winter as though it was the middle of May? No, it …
After decades in careers which took them across the country and around the globe, Jessee and Debby Ring left California and city life behind for a 5-acre plot in Radford in 2005. …
Two years ago, Adam Songer could barely run a mile. But this past fall, Lauren Songer cheered with pride for her husband as he crossed the finish line at his first marathon. …
One might credit the tiny house movement with a new minimalist lifestyle, but the Scandinavians have embraced, elevated and perfected the small, sleek essentials for cozy living for millennia. Finland has been …
There’s dunking yourself in cold water. There’s getting stuck with a bunch of tiny needles. There’s climbing naked into a chamber of liquid nitrogen. There’s succumbing to a deeply meditative state. There’s …
With modern day luxuries like air conditioning, the internet and streaming services, it can be difficult convincing kids to put their screens away and play outside during a hot summer day. While …
If it’s morning, most likely fine artist Lisa Acciai (pronounced A-Cee) is in her studio creating 2-minute animal sketches. “I took a class from a fellow pet portrait artist who swore by …
It all started with senioritis. No, no, not the AARP kind, the kind that plagues graduating high school seniors toward the end of their grade school tenure, when the pencils are dull, …