Click here for installments number one, two, three, and four of this chronicle by WVFC publisher Patricia Yarberry-Allen, writing of her travels home for a major family Thanksgiving. (Ed.)

Mommie expected [...]

I woke on Thanksgiving Day at 4am with a terrible sense of things all gone wrong.  I was in my mother’s home and she was in a nursing home.  [...]

 All of us will be greeted with the phrase “Happy Holidays” sometime soon, if we haven’t been already. But I realized long ago that in my profession, this is [...]

By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger
I've always thrown myself into Thanksgiving. You can see in the photo below, from my turn as a Pilgrim in the 1956 sixth grade pageant at [...]

(Third installment in Dr. Patricia Yarberry's ongoing chronicle of her life-changing holiday trip home — a trip born of change and time, and evoking far more. )

I am travelling [...]

Second of a series by WVFC publisher Patricia Yarberry Allen, as she chronicles a singular Thanksgiving.
It is 9 a.m.and we are in a snow storm.  Snow is covering the [...]

Editor's note: This is the first in a series by Patricia Yarberry Allen, WVFC's publisher, as she drives south on an unexpected  journey home for Thanksgiving.

Road trips across the American [...]

Did you know today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women? We didn't  – though WVFC has long been watching  "Say No to Violence" campaign, headlined [...]

by Laura Sillerman
There are times when to state the obvious is the natural course of grace and gratitude.  This Thanksgiving is one of those times.  I am deeply grateful [...]

Most WVFC  readers likely know  Faith Childs from her essays here, ranging from deeply serious (her elegies for for Benazir Bhutto and Paul Newman, her frank discussion of everyday [...]