Look for Sharp Top

by Hedron McCormick

​I was just a small child when we moved to Bedford, Virginia, only about three years old. I don’t remember much from back then.
 
But I’ve been told that’s when my mom said something to me that stuck for life:
“If you’re ever trying to find your way home, just look for Sharp Top.”
 
I didn’t understand it then, but those words stayed with me, quietly present through everything that came later.
 
We lived on Longwood Avenue for a few years, then moved over to Peaks Street. Peaks Street holds many happy memories for me and the friends I grew up with. We spent so much of our childhood there. But it also holds tough memories. Childhood isn’t always easy, and that place carries all of it, the joy and the pain.
 
Through it all, Sharp Top was always there, quiet, steady, a constant in the background.
 
Eventually, like most people, I left. Life took me in different directions. Sometimes I felt focused and sure, sometimes completely lost. I changed. People changed. And I forgot many of the simple things I used to know.
 
Then, during a hard time when everything felt uncertain, I remembered what my mom said.
 
“Just look for Sharp Top.”
 
So I did.
 
I came back to Bedford. And when I saw that mountain again, something inside me settled. It hadn’t changed. It was like it had been there the whole time, waiting.
 
I didn’t end up in the same house, but I found a place back on Longwood Avenue. A different door, a different chapter.
 
Now, I see Sharp Top almost every day. Sometimes just passing by, sometimes stopping to really look. Either way, it reminds me, no matter how far I’ve gone, or how lost I’ve felt, I can always find my way back.
 
Since coming home, I’ve reconnected with friends who’ve always loved me, people who never stopped showing up even when I didn’t know how to ask for help. And in all of it, I’ve started to feel whole again…grounded, known, and like I belong.
 
And somewhere along the way, I’ve found new love, honest and healing in ways I didn’t expect.
 
There’s something beautiful about coming back to a place that still knows your name.  
Even after all this time. — in Bedford, Va.

I’m a Bedford, VA native who spent many years in Fort Myers Florida raising my three amazing grown children before returning home in 2024. Coming back has been wonderful! I’m surrounded by the mountains, and life long friends. I love being part of this community again. Through skin care, I get to do what I love most, help women feel confident, and beautiful.