Archive of month: August 2025

Sponsored Content: Teen Challenge Extends Ministry to Women Through New Deborah’s House

For 55 years, Adult & Teen Challenge Mid-America has transformed men’s lives in Southeast Missouri, helping to free them from addiction and reintegrate into society through spiritual, vocational, academic and transitional residential services. Now, the Bible-based recovery program is expanding its ministry to women. “It’s like God’s bringing it full-circle — we’re going to be […]
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from the editor: Fall 2025, Collect

My bookshelf is the centerpiece of my home. There it stands in my living room, and it is the deepest compliment when people pay attention to it. I love to buy books because I love to write in them, and also because the physical copies are a visual representation of the invisible: This is what […]
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Funny Women: SEMO improv group provides space for comedians to shine

By Lily Niebrugge In Southeast Missouri State University’s (SEMO) Dramatically Incorrect Comedy Club (DICC), students like freshman musical theater major Brea Johnson take center stage in their comedy. Johnson says she auditioned for DICC, an improv troupe on SEMO’s River Campus that produces shows often comparable to the early 2000s TV show “Whose Line Is […]
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Halfway to Somewhere: A collection of reasons I love gas stations

By Jennifer Goodman There is something about gas stations that is chaotic and strangely comforting in its own eccentric way. A beautiful liminal space, the threshold from where you were and where you are going. It can feel almost otherworldly, like time slips beneath the flicker of fluorescent lights. The glow shows everything in an […]
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Collecting: Jennifer Birk-Cook, Hats

As a child, Jennifer Birk-Cook says she always loved her family’s tradition of wearing Easter bonnets to church on Easter Sunday each year. And she remembers her first two hats: her cowboy hat, which she wore when her family rode their horses in the Sikeston Rodeo Parade, and an Easter bonnet she wore to church […]
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Collecting: Taylor Ebersohl, Seashells

The Bahamas; Tybee Island, Ga.; St. Augustine, Fla.; Gulf Shores, Ala.; Biloxi, Miss. Taylor Ebersohl, a recent graduate of Perryville High School who now attends Missouri State University to study entertainment management, has collected seashells from her family’s trips from all of these beaches. Some of her unique finds include a shark tooth, fish scales […]
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Collecting: Nancy Sims, Books

For Nancy Sims of Cape Girardeau, reading has always been an intergenerational endeavor. As a child, her grandfather often bought her comic books, which ignited her lifelong love of reading. When her children were younger, she bought a newspaper everyday and they read it together, especially enjoying the comics. Now, Sims has four grandchildren and […]
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The Curated Collection: Johniqua Fort, Main Key Realty

Sponsored Content Named the Rising Star by the Southeast Missouri REALTORS Board in 2024, Main Key Realty realtor Johniqua Fort works with people at every step of the homebuying or selling process to help them accomplish their dream. It’s an honor she doesn’t take lightly. “Coming from humble beginnings, I’ve always adored houses and homes,” […]
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Things to Love: Cape Chamber

Sponsored Content Join the Cape Chamber for the third annual Women in Business: At the Heart of It All Celebration, honoring American Business Women’s Day. Celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of businesswomen across the nation and in our region at the largest and most-anticipated Women’s Network event of the year! You will hear inspirational stories filled […]
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The Curated Collection: Jayson Jewelers

Sponsored Content Jayson Jewelers is proud to serve our community and surrounding areas since 1984. Being locally owned and operated, we truly treasure relationships with our clients and enjoy celebrating the special moments in their lives. We have a variety of hand- selected engagement rings offering laboratory or earth-mined diamonds. We specialize in custom-made colored […]
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