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William Hazel Writes


A Boomer and A Zoomer Go Antiquing
I’m the Boomer and I’m not. Let’s make that clear. Zoomer is a best friend. He recently aged into ordering whatever pleases him with his own ID. The Boomer Zoomer tag is his doing. Since I’m a Boomer and I’m not, I’ve been carrying a quiet resentment these past seven years since he hot ironed the branding shortly after our first meeting. Zoomer is finishing his undergrad these days, so we get together when the opportunity spills. On a chosen shirt stuck to your neck July
WILLIAM HAZEL
Mar 286 min read


Strawberry Season
In the full of the field of ripened Sweet Charlies I kissed her. Pick-your-own strawberry season in Hampton Roads is a short, lip sweet...
WILLIAM HAZEL
May 25, 20253 min read


Christmas at The Cavalier
A quintet of lacey white dresses, hems an inch from their asses. A mom enables with the lift of a lens and the teens turn to porcelain....
WILLIAM HAZEL
Dec 21, 20243 min read


Strolling the Old Beach Farmers Marker - A No Mask Outing to Another Dimension
No masks. That's the revelation today. And it feels weird. It feels amazing, but weird. I thought I'd have a crest the top roller coaster...
WILLIAM HAZEL
May 12, 20224 min read


Running the 50th Anniversary Shamrock Marathon Weekend - Three takeaways from returning to a big run
It overwhelmed me for a moment while standing in the middle of the Virginia Beach Convention Center. That subtle mix of anxiety and...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Mar 24, 20227 min read


Ghosts of Thoroughgood Past - Taking A Ghost Tour in Virginia Beach
It is a place of age. A place of time. And of a kind of timelessness. We approached the Thoroughgood House, my wife and I, with a quiet...
WILLIAM HAZEL
Oct 15, 20216 min read
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