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City Girl Confessions: Focusing on What Was & What Will Be
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column via The Glencoe Anchor. A couple months back I recall the idea of a dog park floating around town. There’s just something about that notion that connotes joy: it’s a gathering place to meet new friends and, overall, it’s a cherry on top of the stellar parks already…
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City Girl Confessions: Embracing Inclusion, Diversity In Our Town
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column featured in The Glencoe Anchor. There has been a colorful burst of cheer in our town lately. It has been peeking out on Vernon Avenue. It has been defying gravity and retail awnings. It’s been taking over social media. I’m talking about the delightfully cheerful balloon installation honoring…
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A Note About Dads
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve called my dad in a panic: either the basement flooded, my car was smoking, the pregnancy test said POSITIVE (this was years ago; not pregnant now), I forgot the name of our favorite mechanic, or I was just needing to feel a sense of calm in…
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Three Fun Things
It’s Pride Month! I’m so delighted by the ways in which I’m seeing inclusion promoted and celebrated, particularly this delightful balloon installation at one of my favorite local spots, The Flower Shop in Glencoe. To those who identify as LGBTQ+: Hello, I love you, and I’m thankful for you. A friend asked what I’ve been…
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City Girl Confessions: A Slice of Americana in the Driveway
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column in The Glencoe Anchor. I have distinct memories of childhood centered around a basketball hoop. We had one in our driveway for nearly 20 years and it was the nucleus of entertainment. It was where I learned to dribble a ball, outshoot my brother in a game of…
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City Girl Confessions: Sneaking in Those City Escapes
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column via The Glencoe Anchor. Life zooms by from the window seat of the Metra. It’s a blur of colors, textures, and weather. Time seems to suspend as well. Heading south into Chicago brings me back into my past, back into the roots from which this very column was…
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Three Simple Things
I’m meeting my mom at the Chicago Botanic Gardens for our annual Mother’s Day stroll and lunch. Despite the fact that it’s 40 degrees (cringe), I’m hoping to bask in the tulip bunches. We put in the order for our kitchen cabinets to go into production and DANG, it’s starting to get very real that…
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A Most Enduring Mother’s Day Gift
In honor of Mother’s Day, I’m sharing a favorite column of mine written in 2016 for The Glencoe Anchor. Its words are some of my favorite as it pertains to this holiday and the mothers and mother-like figures we celebrate. I feel as though I’m drowning in gift guides. Each day brings about an email,…
Kelly Q. Anderson 