Happy new year, crochet friends. I am Maurita the Crochet Lady. This month, I chose to create a fun scarf. I altered a design originally called the “crocodile” stitch. People often call it “dragon scale.” Most projects have all of the scales on the front side. My alteration causes ...
We just celebrated the feast of the Three Kings (the Magi) also called Epiphany. The kings saw a star at its rising and followed it to find baby Jesus, the Savior. For some religions, Jan. 6, the feast of Epiphany, is bigger than Christmas because Jesus Christ was introduced to the Gentiles ...
We reached a milestone a few days ago. We are now in the second quarter of the 2000s. There was a time, not that long ago (1999) that we were worried that all the computers in the world would quit when the calendar moved from 99 to 00. Well, they didn’t, and many people are now more ...
“Telling the truth can be a bitter herb.” *** Let’s start with an analogy: “An inflexible army does not triumph / an unbending tree breaks in the wind” (Lao Tzu). Let me take that analogy one step further into metaphorical territory: We are the army in turmoil – we are the tree in ...
As December 2025 draws to a close, we find ourselves at a historic milestone. One fourth of the 21st Century is now behind us. For many, the last 25 years have flown by, as it inevitably does, but with a speed that’s hard to fathom. Even so, the years in West Virginia have been marked by ...
Finally, it is 2026 and things will begin ramping up from here as the new 60-day legislative session kicks off next week with the gaveling in of the House of Delegates and state Senate, and Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s second State of the State address. The West Virginia Press Association’s ...