The end of my trip to Charleston for a discussion about domestic violence couldn’t have been more alarmingly apropos. A Tuesday morning shower had just stopped and the sun was trying to peek around the clouds, when I heard a Read more…
Almost 34,000 people downloaded my book in just three days! So I’m going to write a quick piece about the flurry of weekend downloads for Sister of Silence. First of all, I should preface this with a disclaimer: I tend Read more…
Originally this column was going to be about the results of my own meeting last night, to discuss plans for the workshops I want to hold to help empower women who are living with domestic violence. But today I received Read more…
I was born in California and had I grown up there, I’m certain my life would have turned out quite different. For one thing, I’d be a surfer. A water baby at heart, you couldn’t keep me away from the Read more…
But Will She Be His Last? The years have been hard on Dennis Ervin. But they’ve been even harder on the women who have loved him. Denny and I are the same age, we attended three years together at our Read more…
It takes a lot to make a grown man cry. Especially in Preston County, where they just don’t. Centuries of struggle and tribulation have rendered these macho Mountaineers strong and stoic, when it comes to showing such emotion. But on Read more…
Court documents prove Nathan Mitchell has history of abuse; Facebook posts raise other questions Five years of fear forced 25-year-old Kristin Thompson to keep mum about her own abuse. While she remains terrified of her former abuser, she says she Read more…
Shannon Stafford was holding a cherished love letter from her would-be fiancé when she was buried inside a white casket last Friday. Stafford was executed just six days earlier outside a Morgantown, W.Va., Wal-Mart, while her two-year-old daughter Faith was Read more…
Just three miles from where Shannon Stafford rested in her white casket Friday morning, there’s a huge billboard you can’t miss, just as you leave Masontown, W.Va. It urges Prestonians to help prevent child abuse, saying: “It’s your turn to Read more…
It seems like everyone wants to be the next Howard Stern, saying things simply for shock value. I don’t do that. I don’t make shock statements. But sometimes I’m saying more than meets the eye. Like last week, when I Read more…