I woke up so low and tired and grouchy yesterday morning that I was convinced I’d struggle with today’s GiST post. As the day went on yesterday, things gradually improved, and by the time the alarm went of this morning – as much as I didn’t want to get out from under the covers – [...]
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Wow, do I have a lot to be thankful for this week. Where to start??? With snow falling outside and Greg Brown music playing softly in my cabin, Rosie sleeps on my bed and I click “send” on the email containing my most recent magazine story. I noticed a badge on South City Confidential that said “Grace in Small Things”, so I did some research. Kindness makes its presence known in the most unexpected of ways. 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 just have to tell you how great small town Missouri life has been to me in 2010, and by telling you about all of this, I think you’ll understand why I’ve been posting less often on A Small Town Girl’s Guide – I’ve been out doing so many things this year that it’s [...] “Why on earth did you move from New York City to rural Missouri?” Today was my remarkably unremarkable one-year anniversary in my small town Missouri job. Coincidentally, I’m wearing the same Columbia fleece tonight that I’m wearing in this post, written the day I moved from Brooklyn, New York back to rural Missouri last February. 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 and Christmas stockings. |
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