holding his pale palms outstretched, water-stained sedimentary rocks filling his hands, and I smile and say It could be true, not wanting to be the one to correct him, not wanting to stifle an imagination that has turned leftover lake fill into remnants from the Mesozoic Era. This used to…

A father’s lessons remembered — Another long summer day, another round of the same mind-numbing routine meant to keep my father’s dementia-inflicted brain in tune with reality. Like clockwork, the day begins: A coaxing of his palms into mine, a countdown and gentle pull to prompt him to rise to his feet. A slow but…

Eggs with a side of sass — Just days after her world changed — though maybe right now she doesn’t know it — the T.V. howls at first light, a man in black suit — more fitted for boardroom banter than news narration, I think — recites the latest chapter in this never-ending tragedy. I can’t — no, won’t — listen, so instead, I watch her carelessly stab at her plate, yellow-eyed breakfast staring back from melamine, two more yolk and albumen splattering in the pan behind me.

The Lincoln Journal and The Lincoln News Sentinel are two longstanding community papers based in Hamlin, West Virginia. In 2020, both publications received redesigns that included a nod to their past and a focus on their futures. — In the Fall of 2020, I undertook and led a project to redesign two Lincoln County newspapers — The Lincoln Journal and The Lincoln News Sentinel. Both weekly publications have chronicled many decades’ worth of southern West Virginia history. At the time of this redesign, Hamlin-based Lincoln Journal, Inc. …

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