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Wow, do I have a lot to be thankful for this week. Where to start???
1. A Small Town Girl’s Guide is a Finalist in the Riverfront Times “Web Awards”!
Immediately upon my arrival home to St. Louis this evening following my long weekend in Arizona, I discovered that A Small Town Girl’s Guide was selected as one [...]
I noticed a badge on South City Confidential that said “Grace in Small Things”, so I did some research.
Since highlighting the good things in life is a big part of what A Small Town Girl’s Guide does, I thought it would be fun to join GiST and start focusing one post per week on expressing [...]
A good friend introduced me to the writings of C.S. Lewis last Easter, and I’ve found so much wisdom in Lewis’ words. I’d like to share this passage with you today from The Four Loves:
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will possibly be broken. If you want to [...]
Kindness makes its presence known in the most unexpected of ways.
After several days working out of town, driving more than 70 miles to and from work each day for meetings, I came back to my office to find a brand new food processor sitting in an unopened box on my desk chair.
There was no note [...]
A Small Town Girl’s Guide has been many things to me since moving from New York City to rural Missouri in March of 2009. While I thought that I’d inspire readers to explore small town Missouri with my posts, I’ve found that my readers inspire me to do the same, constantly thinking about our state [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Good news!
This week, I received a note on flickr from schmap.com, requesting use of one my photos of Brooklyn Botanic Garden:
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 about the schmap.com selection is the blog that fellow [...]
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 [...]
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