Early Saturday morning our family weaved through the majestic mountains along the Ohio River and over the bumpy back roads of West Virginia to attend my mother-in-law’s 50th family reunion. The first homestead was actually located two more miles “into the holler” as my husband would tease. The oldest sibling had kept the land and built a new home …

There was nowhere else to sit except in a plaid high back chair in the hotel lobby. Actually, the whole process of finally getting to sit down was a bigger ordeal than I expected. Our family was out of town for an AAU basketball tournament, and my son would need a clean uniform for the next game. I was waiting for a load of laundry to finish (my son’s …