meet along the way: Becky Brown
By Amanda Flinn This story was first published in the August 2023 issue of “The Best Years” as “Faces of Southeast Missour...
meet along the way: Shirley K. Davis
This story was originally published as “The Pie Angel: Local woman blesses people with homemade food and hospitality” in the May...
meet along the way: Taffy McMullin
By Jasmine Jones This story was originally published as “Community Cookbook: Barbecue Brisket, by Taffy McMullin from The Church of Je...
A good read in the great outdoors
Curated by: Kayla Thompson, Adult Services, Cape Girardeau Public Library July is National Picnic Month! So, in celebration, here are a few ...
Stories of kindness, friendship, and community
Curated by: Kayla Thompson, Adult Services, Cape Girardeau Public Library June symbolizes the start of the library’s Summer Reading Progra...
Eating Foods from Childhood Again: A v. sophisticated taste test
Kids of the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and ‘00s, unite: We grew up in the heyday of pre-packaged foods advertised to children — espe...
from the editor: Summer 2023, “nostalgia”
We didn’t get tickets to Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour. We tried really hard, but we were 11,000 and some people back in the Ticketmast...
Home is a Purple School Bus: Local couple embraces tiny living
By Jasmine Jones When Kara and Evan Steffens drive by a schoolyard full of buses, Evan points at the rows of yellow and jokingly exclaims, ...
Reflections: Trans-Atlantic Homes of an Expat Child
By Chloe Wightman Dover, Delaware, USA 5 years old Lazy Sundays on a gritty East Coast beach, or racing through a tube slide into a turquois...