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Last Friday was a good day for my site: 1. The St. Charles Community website offered a nice lead-in to my post on Picasso’s Coffee House in St. Charles. 2. The Cuba Mural Project blog wrote an post about me, linking to my post on the Cuba, MO Race to the Rocker, a 4-mile road race culminating at [...] While I was at the Bonne Terre Public Library on Monday, I pulled out a copy of my mom’s North County High School yearbook. Check out the hottie on the upper-right corner of the spread. MilliGFunk's Momma, photo by MilliGFunk Turns out my mom was a cheerleader and on the pep squad. I had NO idea! I knew [...] Months ago, a woman named Lisa reached out to me on twitter after seeing my posts about the transition from New York City to rural Missouri. We tweeted together and exchanged a few emails before meeting in person for the first time this week. Lisa is a photographer, and my brother and I wanted to have professional [...] When I moved back to Missouri, I decided I’d use twitter and my blog to try to stay as connected as I could to things and people I wasn’t geographically near. I’ve come to use them both to make new friends, as well. I believe in finding the good in bad situations. The good in being taken [...] The latest St. Louis-area twitter meet-up took place on Tuesday night in O’Fallon, Missouri. A small group of hard core tweeps bundled up for the cool air and fought St. Louis rainy day traffic to walk through the Celebration of Lights. @meghoulihan gave us the VIP walk-through, complete with behind-the-scenes stories about the display. The total tweet-up head [...] McKinnis Home, photo by smalltowngirl On Sunday I took my mom on a small town blogging adventure to the Washington, Missouri Holiday House Tour. One of my favorite features of the homes we saw was the fireplace in The McKinnis House, which was decorated in letters that spelled “Believe”, along with lots of whimsical, wintery accents [...] McKinnis Family Tree, photo by smalltowngirl Today was a mother-daughter blogging adventure in the town of Washington, Missouri. Washington is on the Missouri River west of St. Louis, and while it’s not a tiny town, it’s downtown has a historic, small, river town feel about it. Decorated for Christmas, the town left a nice impression on [...] This Thanksgiving I had more to be thankful for than I can articulate. Among the things I found myself the most thankful for were: My dad’s health. My brother coming home for the holiday. Not having to travel to come home for the holiday for the first time in a decade. (NYC = 0; MO=1) My family, in general. I [...] |
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