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    The Great Allegheny Passage

    The Great Allegheny Passage is a 150-mile trail that runs from Point State Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Downtown Cumberland, Maryland. 148.8 miles if you want to get technical. The trail is paved…

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    Grandma Betty’s Frozen Fruit Salad

    Some families have stacks of handwritten notecards filling little file boxes with enough ratios and ingredients to fill a cookbook. My family isn’t one of those families. We have a few family recipes,…

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    Permission To Be Unavailable

    The intersection of connection and technology is amazing. Cellphones and an endless network of cellular towers. Public wifi networks at every coffee shop, restaurant and even on airplanes. We all carry a smart…

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    A Few Good Weekends

    It was mid-January when I received a very long, well-thought out text from a friend. It was the kind of content she would have preferred to send in tiny handwritten letters filling every…