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Azalea Festival 5K

1st Place in my Age Division

This weekend is the 49th Annual Azalea Festival in a small, southeastern Missouri town called Fredericktown. The Azalea Festival includes fair rides, a 5K fun run, a 1 mile walk, a car show, a sand volleyball tournament, an arts & crafts fair, a parade, and a queen coronation, among plenty of other activities for kids [...]

A Small Town Girl’s Guide in Insider573 Magazine

Tom Smugala, editor of Insider573 Magazine, contacted me in November to ask if I’d be interested in having Insider do a story about me, my return to Missouri, and A Small Town Girl’s Guide.
I jumped at the opportunity to write for Insider again (I’ve written for the last two issues), and I was thrilled at [...]

Cowboy Coffee – A Madison County Mercantile

Thursday was my last vacation day of the 2010 work year, and I spent the majority of it in Fredericktown, Missouri. After a visit to the family farm where I had a photo shoot for a story in a Missouri magazine about A Small Town Girl’s Guide and my family’s history here in Missouri, I [...]

ParklandUSA Syndicates A Small Town Girl’s Guide

Well folks, it’s official, A Small Town Girl’s Guide is being syndicated again, this time on a brand new website called ParklandUSA.
The site, devoted to creating a “home on the web for Missouri’s Parkland” was founded by a Parkland-area native now living and working the Washingon D.C. Metro Area. Some of you may already follow [...]

The Budweiser Clydesdales in Farmington

It was an exciting day for horse lovers and Bud lovers alike in small town Missouri. The Budweiser Clydesdales made what we can reasonably assume was their first trip to Farmington, Missouri today for an appearance at, of all places, Buffalo Wild Wings.
I arrived at the Buffalo Wild Wings parking lot fifteen minutes before the [...]