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Welcome new columnist looks at life with a smile.
the first piece Molly Dugger
Brennan sent us ran back in 2012,
and went to some lengths to explain
why she wanted to raise chickens
around her Shenandoah Valley
homestead and how her husband
"Gruff, an educated man," did not.
His objection, she admitted, was
built around the reality that her
point to him about "free breakfast!"
would actually, once you
threw in the costs of coops, feed,
heat, etc., be more like "$58.37,
not including coffee."
Made me laugh out loud.
As does the paragaph of introduce-yourself-please
that I asked for
to include in this issue:
Molly Dugger Brennan is a writer
and speaker who lives in the
Shenandoah Valley with her husband
Patrick and four ridiculously
large, rescued dogs. She has many
lovely childhood memories of the
Blue Ridge mountains, as every family
vacation - no matter the
intended destination - ended up at
Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock.
Even the trip to Philadelphia to see
the Liberty Bell somehow culminated
in the North Carolina
mountains.
And she adds this, in a more serious
vein:
She hopes to make Blue Ridge
Country magazine and especially
the retiring Elizabeth Hunter proud
as she strives to fill Elizabeth's wellworn,
much-loved, columnist shoes.
We're pleased that Molly joins us
with this issue as our front-of-book
columnist. She's back with more animal
fun; please introduce yourself to
her on page 8 and the first of her
Mill Creek Stories. 
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