Last Friday, my friend Josh and I went to the Maplewood Arts Walk, where we had the pleasure of watching a very unique trio of women perform a dance that involved large wooden sticks, jingle bells sewn to their knees, and funny hats.
They frolicked through the performance space to live violin, wooden flute, accordion and guitar music, clanking their [...]
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This Thanksgiving I had more to be thankful for than I can articulate. Among the things I found myself the most thankful for were: It’s not just New York that I miss, but then again, it’s probably never place, separate from the rest of life, that anyone misses. For the last two days, I’ve missed New York City with an aching, depressing, loneliness that only hits at the end of the day, when my guard is down, my mind [...] It’s my personal policy not to get onto my back for any man within the first three minutes that I’ve known him. I was invited to join my parents at a fish fry in Coffman, Missouri in another family’s large shed/garage/barn. Inside the barn, we listened to the men recount the day’s deer hunting adventures while we ate fried blue gill, potatoes and macaroni & cheese. Because in rural Missouri, everything’s better with fresh cooked bacon (rinds). In the days before the internet, when a small town girl was forced to drive 70 miles to buy any album that wasn’t mainstream, Vintage Vinyl was where I went. MilliGCornilicious is at it again, this time bringing the corny to the kitchen via spice cupcakes with traditional white icing and pumpkin spice candy corn. |
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