Virginia is for Lovers
Modern Bride magazine in an issue in 1969 included an advertisement proclaiming that “Virginia is for Lovers.” It was the first such ad in a campaign that has become one of the most successful in America. In 1969, in [...]
Modern Bride magazine in an issue in 1969 included an advertisement proclaiming that “Virginia is for Lovers.” It was the first such ad in a campaign that has become one of the most successful in America. In 1969, in [...]
The migratory routes of the snowbirds from the Northeast to the condominiums of south Florida each winter season are well established. Less well known are the routines of Northern Virginia members of the General Assembly making the annual trek [...]
The decline of Sears as a mail-order retail company is sad for me for Sears, Roebuck and Company as we referred to it when I was growing up brought many happy holiday memories. We were no place near a [...]
My most recent vacation away from Reston made me think of where our community is in the world. To most fully answer the question of where Reston is in the world, I share the following description: Reston, named for [...]
Last week without provocation a woman in the check-out line at the local Target told the person who had just let her in line ahead of her that “I wish they didn’t let you in the country!” In the [...]
Spring has always been the time when we break out of the doldrums of winter and the confines of the house and scratch in the soil, take on new projects, and feel more hopeful! This spring is like that [...]
As a native Virginian born near the small town of Shenandoah in the Shenandoah Valley, I journeyed to Norfolk in Hampton Roads in the southeastern region of the state where I completed my undergraduate degree at Old Dominion University. [...]
My daily commute to work takes me from my bedroom or breakfast table to my office upstairs in my home on Cobblestone Lane in Reston. No office space is provided for members of the Virginia House of Delegates or [...]
My neighbors in Reston probably joined me in not realizing that we live in Hunter Mill, Virginia which according to Money Magazine is the 28th in the “Top 50 Best Places to Live in the United States.” Yes, Reston [...]
Thomas Jefferson, favorite son of Virginia, author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and founder of the University of Virginia to list only those accomplishments for which he most wanted to be remembered, [...]