Article Archive for August 2009
The University of Missouri is a member of the Big 12 North division. On Saturday, Mizzou will take on the University of Illinois at the Edward Jones Dome in the annual Arch Rivalry football game. …
Memories are for keeping. Some of the most important memories are the names of the people we love. As we age, some of the names fade (as I found when stumbling into a high school …
Every time I go camping I spend at least a few hours every evening staring at the fire. There’s something positively mesmerizing about the way the colors and shapes of the flames move and change. …
It is easy to forget more goes into being healthy than just adequate exercise and a eating right. In addition to those basics, there are other things that are responsible for keeping you healthy, …
Ask yourself this question – what do you love about your appearance?
Now, ask yourself – what do you hate about your appearance?
Which one was easier to answer? Sadly, the “hate” question will probably win that …
On July 28th, I had to start re-evaluating who would be my first choice for my fantasy football QB. Brett Favre, man crush to millions, announced he was calling it quits. I had …
It’s three degrees of St. Louis. So Annie (our sports and fitness guru) knows a lady, Vicky, who knows Kelly Fremon the screenwriter for the new movie Post Grad, which hit theaters on Friday. Sure, …
There is something about beer, sunshine and bands that when combined create a Voltron-like force that pulls me in and wrecks my powers of resistance. Every year there are a few choice festivals that I …
As we wind our way through August, we start to approach one of my favorite seasons. You might be thinking its autumn, when one can start to break out the cashmere sweaters and boots, and …
There are a lot of misconceptions about weight lifting out in the wonderful world of chaotic rumors of work out gossip. However, I am here to explain to you why weight training can be good …
While discussing the man who threw beer on Shane Victorino on Wednesday night’s Cubs vs. Phillies game, my boyfriend made a fantastic point. I was bemoaning the disrespectful and classless moron (Johnny Macchione) because not …
A while ago, I shattered 200 AOL CDs to make a disco ball for a party. This process took hours of stomping, cutting with my hardcore CD cutting scissors (Warning: you could also lose a …
Last night I went to represent Girls Guide to the Galaxy at Craig Mayhem’s Nucular Comedy open mic night at Atomic Cowboy. I had a great time, which got me thinking about the performing arts …
As I was getting ready this morning, I took a look at the products that I use every day, and realized that there is a wide variety of prices in my makeup kit. For example, …
I suppose it would be easy to go on about the obvious differences, spending, odor, priorities…
Like the fact that a man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants. A woman will pay $1 for …
No, that is not technically the Fraggle Rock theme song, but it sounds nice, doesn’t it? But, hey if you are soooooo smart, then how do you pronounce the word nuclear? Well, maybe I didn’t …
Chicago me this, Chicago me that – they didn’t get 2012, but they might get ’16… what’s up with that?
Chicago definitely doesn’t have the best team in baseball, but they sure might become the center …
Long ago (last Thursday) and far away (Silicon Valley), there were two highly popular social networking websites, we will call them Twitter and Faecbook. These sites are the life blood for many a bored cubicle dweller, …
If you can’t find local peaches, you haven’t been paying attention. The St. Louis area’s one of the country’s biggest and best peach producers, and their fruit’s fantastic this summer. While there’s nothing wrong with …
Bigfoot is back in town. That is right, Claude Reginald, St. Louis’ very own hairy bi-ped is having a show!
Who is Claude? According to his creator, plush artist Laurene Franco, “He came about from a cartoon-y …


