Dunnington Mansion is what real estate agents would call “charming.” The abandoned mansion, in Farmville, Virginia, is still beloved enough to have its own foundation (the charitable kind; we assume it already has the stone kind). But it does need a bit of work. It requires the kind of sweat equity you would also put into your own DIY quick ...
Contested divorces make headlines in Hollywood. Unremarkable, unexciting uncontested divorces are far more common, less costly, easier, and faster, but do not grip us the way marital splits do from “Married At First Sight.” But like Hollywood’s pampered stars and the fragile casts of reality shows, spouses in contested divorces may just be really bad at talking things out and ...
Gristmills are still scattered across Virginia1, though they have had little or no role in grinding our wheat into flour for about a century. We mention gristmills because, in the third century a Greek philosopher2 came up with the catchy phrase, “The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small.” That has come down to us as, “The ...
We don't have a lot of space here to fuss around, so let's get right to it: you can ruin a straight and clean path to divorce by ignoring the fine points of a separation agreement, leaving you and your wife in the weeds of incrimination, indecision, and accusation. Please consider these seven To-Dos and five Don'ts as you set about ...
Chessie the Chesapeake Bay sea monster probably does not exist. Snallygasters and Bigfoot may or may not exist in Virginia; the odds are against either of them, despite the hype provided by sites like Mysterious Universe1. One other mythical Virginia fantasy is the legal separation. In Virginia, you cannot claim “legal separation;” you can be separated, or you can be ...
Ah, marriage! As James Joyce once said in his work, Ulysses, “What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own.” If your marriage started off with the two of you sharing everything 100 percent, but now you are trying to claw back roughly half of everything from a woman you now consider (to borrow from Dickens) a “grasping, clutching, ...
Ever consider making your own coffin? You can choose for a straightforward and relatively inexpensive plywood casket, or a more elaborate “toe pincher” style reminiscent of the Old West. Plans are available, for free, on the internet for the do-it-yourself funeral fancier. We are not recommending this, nor do we pass judgment. We only say you can do it, not ...