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In the Barber’s Pole

When I was a kid, my dad and brother regularly had their hair cut by the same barber.
When I was a kid, my mom would pull up in front of the post office, and my brother or I would run inside to get the mail. That was when the post office boxes were still locked [...]

Ozark Trail Part I: Spiders

Yesterday, I took a long hike on the Ozark Trail’s longest section, the Courtois (pronounced “Code-a-way”).
Although I’d like to write an entire blog on the section of trail that I hiked, for now I’d like to show you some of the arachinids who were hanging out on their webs across my trail.
I don’t know what [...]

O’Dear

I am not a scrap-booker or a paper-crafter. The intricacies of cutting and pasting tiny scraps of paper onto one another make my impatient hands quiver, and the cuteness of all things scrapbooky makes me groan. To be honest about it, my mom has a gift with this stuff though, and I enjoy watching her [...]

Lots and Lots of Tomatoes!

I posted photos earlier this summer of my fledgling garden:
The garden now bears little resemblance to that tiny garden I started with in May. The tomato plants and berry bushes are as tall as I am, which isn’t saying much, of course.
The trellice you see in the photo is for the zuccini, squash and cucmber, all [...]

Smalltowngirl's Worst Date Ever

Online dating was a brilliant way to meet new people and explore a new city when I moved to New York. For the most part I was successful with it, but nothing in life is 100% wonderful all of the time.
This guy’s online profile talked about his love for music and the arts, but my [...]

Making the Most of Missouri

Today, I made my way to Crown Valley Winery, where I bought a bottle of blackberry wine.
I’m such a proponent of locally produced goods that I really wish I could acquire a taste for Missouri wines, most of which are very sweet. I bought a bottle of Crown Valley’s blackberry wine because it said it paired [...]

Bellevue Presbyterian Church (addendum)

Bellevue Presbyterian Church, the oldest Presbyterian Church West of the Mississippi River, is only a half-hour drive from my own small Missouri hometown. I’ve blogged twice about Bellevue already, so if you missed those blogs, you can catch them here and here.
This blog is primarily to show off three of the creepiest and most fun [...]

Bellevue Presbyterian Church

Not long ago, I wrote about the oldest Presbyterian church west of the Mississippi River, Bellevue Presbyterian Church. Bellevue’s home is a tiny Missouri town called Caledonia, population 158.

Bellevue remains locked to the public the majority of the time, but I had a special opportunity to see the inside of the church a few weeks [...]

Trader Joe's

NYC = 0; MO = 1
Why?
Because in NYC, the Trader Joe’s in Union Square typically has a line that winds so far through the store that employees need to stand throughought the store holding signs that say things like “Line Starts Here” or signs with arrows pointing in the direction that the line will turn [...]

Traveling Light

I’ve been missing New York City a lot lately. Yesterday I started looking at pictures from my move back to Missouri, and when I did, I realized there were things I had intended to blog (about my move) that I wasn’t able to at the time for logistical reasons.
Case in point: My last trip to [...]