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Peanut Butter Blondies

I found miniature peanut butter cups awhile back at the Olde Tyme Pantry in Farmington, but only recently got around to baking with them.
I’d envisioned the miniature peanut butter cups used in blondie bars, but had never baked them before. I found a recipe online for basic blondies, substituted half whole wheat flour for the [...]

Goodbye, Yoga Dog

Before I accepted my job in rural Missouri, I researched yoga classes in the area.
I’d been in New York City long enough to have become one of those people who counted on regular yoga classes to keep me centered, balanced, and, well…sane.
Yoga was a big enough deal to me that I wouldn’t have accepted the job here [...]

Tour de Missouri

The Tour de Missouri is finally here.
My excitement about the race stems not from my love for the sport, but from my love for small town, Missouri. Small towns along the race route will be the recipients of a lot of press and a temporary boom in commerce.
Last night, Tour de Missouri was featured on [...]

St. Paul Lutheran Church

When I was a little girl, I went to preschool at the school associated with this church.
I have clear memories from inside the old brick school building, and I remember thinking to myself that it would be cool to grow up and come back to the school when it was very, very old.
A few years [...]

Pedestrian Traffic

On Sunday afternoon, I took a walk through downtown Farmington, Missouri. There was practically no automobile traffic, and there was even less pedestrian traffic.
Downtown Small Town, Missouri still shuts down on Sundays.
As I walked down Main Street, the occassional driver passing by in their truck or car craned their necks to stare…
What is that woman [...]

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 [...]

St. Joe State Park Bicycle Trail

St. Joe State Park is one of Missouri’s largest state parks, boasting more than 8,000 acres of property and a 14-mile concrete trail for walking, jogging, rollerblading or biking. The best part? This park is really close to my small town.
I jogged on the trail a few times in high school, and took my mountain [...]

Showers of the Rainy and the Baby Varieties

One of my favorite things in the whole world is a good thunderstorm, and since I’ve been back in Missouri, there has been no shortage of good ones. Nearly every day, storms have blown through our area.
Missouri’s spring showers have been a welcome home, of sorts, after ten years away, missing the storms that Missouri [...]

Blowing Up He-Man

It’s the time of year in Small Town, Missouri when tents are pitched under which bottle rockets and Roman candles and sparklers and M-60s are sold to kids who save their allowances for weeks in order to blow things up on the nation’s anniversary.
Like most kids, my brother and I liked to blow things up. [...]

Country Days Run

I rolled out of bed at 6 am to head into Farmington for the Country Days 1 mile fun run registration.
It’s called a “fun run”, and it really was fun. There were not more than a hundred people in the 1 mile run, which was a contrast from the huge Go! St. Louis 5K I ran [...]

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