In the spirit of the holidays and in the joyful style of Hallmark, here is the first installment of Stand Still & Chill, a free-read novella set in West Virginia's beautiful Canaan Valley. Look for more chapters over the next two weekends! Stand Still & Chill Volume 2 of the Match Made in Almost Heaven… Continue reading Free-Read Christmas Novella
Author: JOY journal
After a long career writing for local newspapers — and, on rare occasions, for publications such as The Washington Post — Nora is enjoying a second wind as an innkeeper. She still blogs and does writing projects of special interest. She lives in Appalachia with her husband and a dog named Finn, who is beside himself with joy when the family's daughters have college breaks.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Summer, captured…
Just say no to pumpkin spice! It's still summer and here is a recipe that can capture it in a bottle. Roasted Tomatoes Preheat oven to 350. Rinse and stem whatever tomatoes you have -- my photos include a mix of store-bought romas and grape and heirloom cherries from my neighbor's garden. (She has fence… Continue reading Summer, captured…
A trail of book crumbs
I thought I knew all the juicy family "secrets." The marriages, the not-quite marriages and, well, the one about the many-greated uncle -- a farmer who was shot to death on a dirt road I have actually walked. The story is that my relative discovered someone was stealing his chicken feed and he poisoned the… Continue reading A trail of book crumbs
New book alert :)
My newest book is a non-fiction history of First Presbyterian Church of Wheeling, W.Va. While this June 2023 release would be of most interest to residents of the Ohio Valley, this 200-year-old church also provides an interesting point of view in terms of American and church history. The story begins inside a log fort just… Continue reading New book alert 🙂
Nora Edinger -- JOY Journal 