Two years ago I dreamed of having my writing published in magazines, and today I was published in the fourth magazine in twelve months*. Insider573 Magazine, a photo-rich, high-gloss, high-end magazine owned by a Farmington, Missouri family approached me this summer to ask if I was interested in writing for them.
I was surprised when the [...]
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Through my teens and twenties, I always respected and admired distance runners. When I turned twenty-eight, I started a new job that sometimes requires long hours. It’s not uncommon to see coworkers in the office at all hours of the day or night, on weekends and on holidays. When I picked up my half-marathon training [...] Yesterday was a 5K in Festus, Missouri called the “Partners in Wellness 5K Fun Run/Walk”. Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Twin City Days and the Jefferson County Family YMCA (a branch of the YMCA of Greater St. Louis) worked together to sponsor this run. A family friend gave up his private pilot’s license and his personal airplane a few years ago in exchange for a Yamaha motorcycle. When he still flew, it wasn’t uncommon for him to fly families to other cities during emergencies or to help hospitals deliver organs to patients for transplant. I book-ended the summer of 2010 with float trips; one on Memorial Day and one on Labor Day. I used Bass River Resort for both floats, the first of which was along the Courtois Creek from Highway 8 to Bass River, and the second of which was from Bass River to Onandaga State Park. Though not an exclusively Missourian past time, I think that float trips are one of Missouri’s most popular summertime recreations. If you’ve never heard of a float trip, it’s exactly what it sounds like – a trip that centers on floating in a river. I don’t know much about butterflies, but I know that it’s not every day that a butterfly lands on your hand and stays there for several minutes. That’s exactly what happened during my Missouri float trip on Monday, and it was like A Small Town Girl’s Guide if Walt Disney were directing the screenplay. Each time I drive through Coffman, Missouri to visit Crown Valley Winery, Chaumette Winery, or Charleville Winery, I pass a small white frame church that sits on a humble little Ste. Genevieve County hill. There’s not been a time that I’ve driven past this church that I haven’t noted its eerie demeanor; it’s a seemingly [...] When it comes to public art and bicycles, New York City and small town Missouri seem to have a shared interest. |
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