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As a kid, I wasn’t afraid of much, but I was scared of what was beneath the surface of lakes, oceans, seas, gulfs or streams. Any natural water source that was too deep for me to see the bottom of terrified me. Our hearts are like those lakes, oceans, seas, gulfs and streams sometimes in that there [...] This year, Fourth of July in Missouri meant rain for most of the day, so instead of BBQ or bottle rockets, I filled my day with indoor things. It wasn’t until I was standing beneath the St. Louis Arch that it really felt like the Fourth of July to me. I met an old friend for dinner [...] For the first time in ten years, I live close enough to the family farm (GrandPaGFunk’s homestead, as it were) to see family when they visit from out of town. I’m the youngest of the seven cousins, and most of my cousins’ kids (my second cousins) are closer in age to me than my cousins are. Six of [...] Good news! This week, I received a note on flickr from schmap.com, requesting use of one my photos of Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Lily Pool Terrace at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, photo by smalltowngirl Check out my flickr pool here. I’ll let you know when this photo makes it live on schmap.com’s New York City site. An addition to the excitement [...] Today my blog hit two milestones. 1. I doubled my to-date highest number of hits per day. 2. I was recognized in WordPress’s May 10 list of Top 100 Growing Blogs. I was number 52. Needless to say, this makes me really excited. On the dark side, we’re still without power or water at our house. We lost [...] I would sit in my window seat as a little girl, lights off and window cracked, watching the lightning storms and smellling the rain. Storms in Missouri blow through hard and fast. It sounds as if God and his angels are hitting strike after strike in the bowling alley in the sky, and the lighting lights the [...] The morning sun was at my back as I drove North on Highway 8. I was hovering just below the speed limit as I approached the Potosi city limits. There is no turning lane on the highway in that spot, so when I saw a car passing the pick-up, I realized that the truck was in my [...] One of the questions I’ve gotten over and over about my move from NYC to MO is, “How are you enjoying driving everywhere?” Another is, “How do you like your 42 mile commute?” On a whole, I don’t mind the commute or the driving. One thing that subway life taught me, however, was just how dangerous highways are. When I’d [...] |
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