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Dardenne Prairie Produce Market

Guest Post and Photos Contributed by Elisabeth Cutshall.
As a work at home Mom, I love to cook healthy meals for my family, but I also love convenience. This is why I absolutely LOVE shopping at the Dardenne Prairie Produce Market.
The market sits on the corner of Highway N, right outside of my lovely little community [...]

A Small Town Girl's Guide (to Getting Engaged!)

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A Surprise at the Door

By Friday night of this week, I was almost entirely unpacked in my Colorado home. Seven days prior, I’d been en route to St. Louis for my going away party, where dozens of friends stopped by to wish me well. Now I was alone in Colorado Springs, feeling melancholy about what I’d left behind in Missouri [...]

Moving Away Playlist

I love music.
I’m moving away.
I’ll have 15+ hours in a U-Haul to listen to music while my loyal sidekick (Rosie) sleeps beside me.
I need music for the drive.
This is where you can help.
Leave me a comment with the song or songs that you think I need to have on my playlist for driving across Kansas, [...]

MilliGFunk Moves to Colorado

I’m nervous, excited and sad to share with you the news that my years of blogging from rural Missouri have come to an end. On August 21st, I’ll be leaving my one-room cabin in rural Missouri to begin a new phase in my life and my career in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
After nearly seven years of work [...]

Grace in Small Things (GiST): July 18, 2011

Last night I was one of fifty thousand or so fans in St. Louis who were braving the mid-July heat in order to see U2 perform live at Busch Stadium.  Bono is arguably one of the most powerful people in the world, and that’s made apparent in U2′s live shows. He’s an activist who uses [...]

Swimming with Dolphins

Once upon a time, there was a handsome man who liked to plan sweet surprises for his beautiful girlfriend. The handsome man’s name was Nick and his beautiful girlfriend’s name was Melissa – otherwise known as Small Town Girl.
On Nick and Melissa’s recent vacation to the Florida Keys, Nick had planned a half-day surprise for [...]

$1.35 a Scoop Asian Express

 
Ambiguous marketing is always good for a laugh, right?
Straying from Missouri but sticking with small towns, I spotted this sign in a small(ish) town in Colorado recently. I was – and still am – perplexed by the meaning of this sign. I’m fairly certain that this established sells liquors, but what exactly are they selling [...]

Sedona, Arizona

In January I visited Arizona for the first time. Although I was staying in Phoenix, my boyfriend – an Arizona native – wanted me to see parts of Arizona other than the sprawling metropolis where we were staying. Despite only arriving on Friday afternoon and having a half-marathon on the books for Sunday, Nick and [...]

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 [...]