5 years ago. 1st date. King Tut’s.
@bijoutheatre
.
@preservationpub
. 🖤 (This photo is from a few months later after a
@dirty_guvnahs
concert at the Bijou—which 4 years later, we blasted as we walked into our wedding reception 🙌🏼) I miss you, Knoxville!
How long have u been trying to tell America this,
@MelissaHartwig_
😏👏🏼
"...suggests that health authorities should shift away from telling the public to obsess over calories & instead encourage Americans to avoid processed foods that are made w/ refined starches & added sugar"
“This is the road map to reducing the obesity epidemic in the United States. It’s time for U.S. and other national policies to stop focusing on calories and calorie counting.”
I can't find the words to express the gratitude I feel for our healthcare workers. Hear what one incredible
@StLukesSTL
ICU nurse said about her and her team's role during the pandemic on
@NBCNews
. Blown. Away.
Found it,
@whitneyhaworth
and
@Ben_Fred
! Growing up playing softball/pitching,
@catosterman
was my role model. I ripped this out of a magazine (17 years ago!) and used to keep it in my wallet as a reminder to work hard, set goals and always look for positives in tough moments.
Been almost three years since I first saw
@MarenMorris
in STL, the day Hero dropped (and thanks to
@mandystlpd
for switching seats with me so I could be close for her set)! Not many can write a tune like her, let alone sing. Can't wait to see this QUEEN again tonight!
#GIRL
👑
Loved catching the late airing of today’s
@STLonAir
featuring two of my favorite places:
@Afterwords2
and
@STLpubLibrary
💛 (I fall in the escapist category so give me all the recs!)
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.“ - Pat Conroy
Don’t think I will ever get over the
#HILife
#HoneymoonHangover
(or adjusting back to CST)
Shoutout to the unsung hero spouses right now, like
@Ben_Fred
who puts up with me watching at least one episode of Glee every night (for the last month).
Me: “So they just graduated....”
BF: “Does that mean the show is over?!”
Me: “No, season 3 just ended. There’s still 3 more.”
Had the best weekend celebrating (and let's be real, cackling) with these incredible women, cheering on the Cubbies, repping Alan Jackson & making the same pose in every pic. Lucky to stand by these ladies when I marry
@Ben_Fred
!
#BENtToBe
#FreddieSetGo
#NovyNoMore
#DenzelAndJLaw
This time five years ago began the greatest tradition — beating
@Ben_Fred
in March Madness brackets. Will I take the crown for the sixth straight time?
@Ben_Fred
AHEM, but I have watched the show, twice. (All I want is to be Tami Taylor—and will never accept the fact that Lyla+Tim don’t end up together. CC:
@whitneyhaworth
@molkatcar
)
Just tried explaining to
@Ben_Fred
why I cried my way through Season 3, Episode 22 of Gilmore Girls. His response: "I can't have a serious conversation with you about this." Sounded oddly familiar. 🤔 (But really, props to him for putting up with my pandemic TV binge choices.)
I love a good collection of essays and holy wow,
@corrigankelly
’s Tell Me More blew me away. Laughed, cried and want to send all of my friends a copy. 🌟
As the granddaughter of Karl & Marian Yontz, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t teary eyed as you talked about Paris during Mean To Me,
@bretteldredge
. Thanks for putting your heart & soul into all you do, and for playing Signs tonight! 🖤
Recirculating
@Ben_Fred
story from Dec. Perfect for March Madness!
"Entering this season and this game, the Tigers making the NIT would have felt like a great success in Gates’ debut. Exiting Enterprise late Thursday night, making the NCAA Tournament felt like a realistic goal."
This one made me cry.
@Ben_Fred
got personal and wrote about the mix of pride and fear we feel toward the doctors and nurses in our families and the way healthcare heroes are risking it all to keep us safe, without thinking twice.
I would not normally write about one of my wife’s coworkers.
I would not normally write about my family.
But things aren’t normal, and Breanne Griffin and the other healthcare heroes up there on the front lines of this fight deserve a round of applause.
“Most of the images in “Leaving and Waving” are offhand snapshots, captured in the brief moments of a car’s retreat.” Growing up, my grandparents stood on the porch, waving goodbye every time we left. Deanna Dikeman’s art hits all the feels.