Outdoors

Paddling Virginia Water Trails

Early morning sunlight shafts through a haze of high, feathery cirrus clouds, casting vermilion hues across the mist as my wife and I ride the outward tide down Monday Creek toward Big Island nature preserve. Our kayaks glide past cordgrass marshes punctuated by stacks of wild oysters and muscles. Fiddler crabs clitter across the muddy […]
September 12, 2025

Wright at Twilight

Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House
September 12, 2025

Murder on the Orient Express

Virginia Repertory Theatre