Tag: city girl
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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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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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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, […]
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City Girl Confessions: So Much More Than A Candy Store
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column via The Glencoe Anchor. A few years ago I covered the grand opening of The Sweet Buddha in Glencoe. I shot photos, interviewed owner Sarah Miller, and had a sugar-filled day at her cheery candy store. But here’s the thing: I just walked into The Sweet Buddha this […]
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City Girl Confessions: The Art of Missing Home
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column published via The Glencoe Anchor. My husband once proclaimed that five days is the ideal getaway. Shorter than 5? That’s great. But longer? That’s when home sickness can start to creep in. Hold up, though. I’m not talking about the slow ache that can come from deep longing- […]
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City Girl Confessions: Desperately Seeking Spring
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column published via The Glencoe Anchor. There’s something really disheartening about checking the weather forecast and seeing single digits…again. I get that we live in the Midwest, but c’mon! The first day of Spring is slated for March 20th. How may I rejoice in the switching off of seasons […]
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City Girl Confessions: A Local Shop In Full Bloom
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column published via The Glencoe Anchor. It’s challenging to shop local. There, I said it. We live in an era of quick convenience. We can order things straight from an App or smartphone. With just a few quick taps, I can track a pizza delivery, queue up a latte […]
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City Girl Confessions: All The Ways to Warm Up
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column published via The Glencoe Anchor I still haven’t fully defrosted from the Polar Vortex. Perhaps I won’t until the first flower of Spring blooms. That would be fine because the way I see it, if we are stuck in the thick of winter, we simply must adapt. We must […]
Kelly Q. Anderson 