Several people have mentioned to me how much fun it must be to travel and talk to people and visit places in the Ozarks like I do. I’m convinced that anyone can enjoy a day in the Ozarks by just getting out and watching and listening. You don’t need a press pass and notebook to get that ...
A Tribute to A Great Dad on Father’s Day: On Being a Coach’s Kid
Here's a tribute to a great dad, my dad, that I wrote a few years ago, and it still holds true. I am, by nature, competitive. It might be that I’m that way because I was first girl in a string of four girls—with six years separating oldest from youngest. Or I might be this way because my family ...
E. Marie’s Spring Junk Fest
It’s an event that I’d always wanted to attend, but always found myself out of town or otherwise occupied. Fortunately, I could go to this year’s E. Marie’s Junk Fest, held Sat., June 2. As you may have figured out, I’m a junker – mostly, because I love the stories and often, interesting history, ...
Museums of Missouri #3: Holocaust Museum & Learning Center
Sometimes, it’s the simple thing that we take away from the complex idea. In this case, a metal cup hangs suspended by 2 strings in a glass case at the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center in St. Louis. That cup represents a Jewish prisoner’s sole dinner implement during incarceration at a ...
Portraits of Courage on Display at Wonders of Wildlife
You know how sometimes you read about something and you want to see it? You hope that someday you’ll see it? That started for me when I was a girl, when I read about Da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa," housed at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Then, I saw it. I read about Lewis and Clark’s journals from their ...
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