An Essay for the Day Archives

May 25, 2019 45

t was about as poignant a moment as one could imagine. The National World War II Memorial. On the National...

AN ESSAY FOR THE DAY: Wrapping Up a New Christmas Tradition

December 25, 2018 21

A tradition nearly 33 years in the making is about to be wrapped in the extended McNickle family this Christmas....

November 22, 2018 25

It was three years ago this very week that my sister, Winslow, and I were left in a box at...

October 20, 2018 8

The number of white envelopes stored on a dining room hutch shelf has reached crammed proportions. And whatever the word...

August 25, 2018 104

“I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life than the sunflower,” says one of the characters...

July 7, 2018 8

Eighty-five years ago this Independence Day – on July 4, 1933 — it bowed on the broad and rail-less front...

March 31, 2018 96

JONES MOUNTAIN, W.Va. – Funny what nearly 35 years of urban living makes an old country boy forget about country...