Written by Vanilla Sugar on August 22, 2009
- I prayed for peace in Tanzania. I prayed for successful peacemaking efforts around the world. I heard the organ pipes play and voices rise in song, "Let There Be Peace on Earth." I was...
Written by Vanilla Sugar on May 19, 2009
- A foot closer and we could have patted the head of the albino deer. Elk grazed not much further away with heads down and butts to our faces. Long horn cattle lounged under...
Written by mlmeredith on June 23, 2008
- Climate change notwithstanding, St. Louis is at that dividing line between where the rivers are frozen over and free flowing. The significance of that is that during January and February a large number of...
Written by Jose Kevo on October 2, 2006
- They say that "idle hands are the devil's workshop". So what better way to foil temptation than by picking up a canoe paddle, and go idling down the river with IGO's Idler? When Idler mentioned...
Written by btwood2 on February 13, 2005
- We were lucky that, on the very evening of the day we arrived in Branson, our resort (Sunterra Fall Creek) was putting on this dinner show at Clementine’s, their restaurant. As many as 20...
Written by Jose Kevo on December 9, 2004
- In late May 2002, a regular customer requested personal favor. Donna had become property manager for 27 rental houses and needed introductions translated, since most tenants were Hispanic. Stopping at one house, blinds were drawn,...
Written by Jose Kevo on December 9, 2004
- Whether from a self-created environment or part of the aging process, turning into a homebody was one of the last things ever expected. This change in lifestyle has been enjoyable while conceding to down-home country...
Written by Jose Kevo on December 9, 2004
- If ever near Carthage, Missouri, with time to stop awhile, I invite you to a historic strip of Route 66 that runs through town. Don't think you're lost just because almost everyone in the neighborhood...
Written by Jose Kevo on September 8, 2004
- If you think about it...those early stages of awareness towards the world beyond us, is that not birth of the travel bug? Growing up in middle America's 4-State region, I recall frequently crossing borders...
Written by Re Carroll on March 1, 2004
- Mark Twain put Hannibal on the map and many of the buildings in the downtown core
have been featured in his stories. For a small town we found quite a lot to see and...
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