Time plays tricks on me sometimes. It seems like I should be able to close my eyes and be back in Brooklyn or Taipei or Pittsburgh, but it’s been years since I lived in any of those places. Missouri has been my home (again) now for two-and-a-half years, but sometimes it seems like so much [...]
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When I say I live in small town Missouri, I’m being generous. I actually live in the middle of a massive forest more than ten miles from the nearest small town. As a result, I’m surrounded by wildlife. I think it’s fair to say that the average person would assume life in Brooklyn to be far more thrilling and way more dangerous than life in a Missouri town of just over 2,500 people. On the average day in said tiny Missouri town, the average person’s assumption might be accurate. Two things that I value are healthy eating and trying local foods. When my family showed interest in trying bison from Sayersbrook Bison Ranch one night this week for dinner, I went shopping at Boo’s Market in Potosi, Missouri. At the end of a family’s driveway on a stretch of rural highway in Washington County, Missouri is a square white sign that reads, “YOUR FORGIVEN” on one side and “THINK GOD” on the other. Immediately across the road, the neighbor flies a Confederate flag. Happy Cinco de Mayo from rural Southeast Missouri, where the nearest quesidillas and margaritas are twelve miles away. Small town Missouri simply doesn’t stop surprising me. On a recent visit to Washington State Park in DeSoto, Missouri, I learned that Missouri is home to 500-2,000-year-old petroglyphs created by Native Americans. Washington State Park is one of only two parks in Missouri that holds such carvings. The Missouri State Parks website says that the [...] Tires screeching, I pulled a U-ey on State Highway C in Belgrade, Missouri this afternoon to get a photo of this sign. |
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