My pen died yesterday afternoon after several months of faithful service. It was a gift from someone who frequents my job and she dropped off a breast cancer awareness goody bag of sorts for everyone in my office. I wasn’t in when she did the drop off (as it was either October or November and…
Author: Kelen Conley
Life In Morgantown: Gary’s Comics And More
Living in Capon Bridge, the closest comic book store was Four Color Fantasies in Winchester, VA. As often as my parents took me to get comics from there, most of my early collection came from the newsstand (yes kids, when I was a boy you could get comic books everywhere. The grocery store, the convenience…
Life In Morgantown: Born Day
On January 22nd, I celebrated my 12th birthday in Morgantown. On January 30th, E took me out on the town. In the past, I used to have something called a Birthday Bash at Buck’s Corner Pub every year. It was really just a ruse so I’d have an excuse to headline my own show; all…
Life In Morgantown: Winter Storm Jonas
I’m not a fan of snow. I don’t think I ever have been since around 8th grade. It was my first year playing organized basketball in Hampshire County and snow canceled one of my basketball games (it wasn’t the last). Since then, snow and I have had a very hate/hate relationship. I’ve heard some people…
Life In Morgantown: Volcano
In this new column, I’m going to take a few paragraphs to share my various travels around Morgantown. I don’t know how I ended up doing this but I think E started complimenting me and I turned into putty. A word of advice: If you want a writer to do something for you, make sure…
MVP Award: Creed
Creed may be the best movie I’ve seen in seven years. And yes, that counts Marvel movies, all the Hunger Games movies… point being, I don’t see a lot of “regular” films in the theater. Hell, I don’t see a lot of movies or television period anymore unless it’s Muppets, Sesame Street, or Frozen. But…