Cool real estate video of the week: In the old days, real estate agents were considered very pushy, like some other sales professions. But, it is my opinion that the agents who are thriving in today’s market are those that realize that their business has to be focused on relationship building, not pushy sales techniques. […]

Over at the Houston Press Beer blog, Katharine Shilcutt posted a map of the United States showing a beer for each state. When I saw the headline, I wondered which of Virginia’s award-winning breweries she would select to represent the Commonwealth. Sta…

For those of you who would like to lose weight, prefer your lunch having more substance than just an apple, but aren’t sure of what to eat so that you won’t go over your points, here are some great low-point lunch ideas (with their total points) that w…

A study at Stanford suggests that encountering all our happy friends and their perfect lives on Facebook is making us feel like crap, when we realize our lives don’t measure up.
I can believe that on some intuitive level. If you are trying to start a f…

Pretty much my entire homeschooling reading list is in this post. These lists are often link bait. This one may be too, but the author at least took the time to poke around each site, which is more than most of them do. # O’DonnellWeb: Not everything Chris O’Donnell (no relation) posts up here has […]

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We recently took the time for a little more research for our upcoming Winter beer tasting. After all, it’s only fair to our guests that we have fresh thoughts in mind on the beers we’ll serve. (The sacrifices we make are incredible.)

Coffeehouse Stout…

After yesterday’s rain/sleet/snowstorm I decided to keep up the old chase photo posts with this one.  Taken at Todd’s Tavern VA, the clump of trees in the foreground was 150 yards away and the tornado was just behind it.  You can see the rain…

Through the magic of Google Alerts, I recently learned about another new(ish) Virginia brewery. Blue Lab Brewing Company opened in Lexington, VA in November 2010. They describe themselves as “Lexington, VA and Rockbridge County’s first and only micro-b…