For someone who's lived in Ohio for most of her life and didn't go to Hocking Hills until this year, I sure do like going to Hocking Hills. I ventured back again for a bloggers' retreat to experience Hocking Hills Comfort Food Cruise, a weekend excursion where an $18 ticket—$5 of which ...
The Ohio State Reformatory (The Shawshank Redemption Filming Locations in Mansfield, Ohio)
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone." —Stephen ...
Checking In: Cabins by the Caves in Hocking HIlls, Ohio
After hiking in Hocking Hills State Park, my boyfriend and I planned to spend Halloween in a secluded cabin in the woods watching scary movies (but not Evil Dead or Blair Witch or Friday the 13th or Cabin in the Woods or...you get it.) Cabins by the Caves were ...
Hiking in Hocking Hills
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." —Henry David Thoreau I've lived in Ohio most of my life. My family is ...
Eating On The Road: Jack Kerouac’s Apple Pie
"I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer...that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course." —Jack Kerouac I set aside years of well-cultivated ...
Eating Like Little Women: A Christmas Breakfast Inspired by the Novel
Last week, I drove home to Ohio: twelve hours from Boston to Columbus, snow-covered New England trees giving way to long stretches of farmland. I never thought I would be homesick for Ohio until I left it. For years, I vowed to get out, convinced that a life-affirming epiphany would occur if I ...
Eating Like The Boxcar Children: Stew and Questionable Childhood Aspirations
My favorite game to play when I was a kid was homeless. I realize how terrible that sounds, but in my defense I lived in the suburbs. I didn't have a lot going on. Also, I was eight. I put peanut butter sandwiches in a bundle with a flashlight and my Tamagotchi (you know, the ...