Tag: north shore
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City Girl Confessions: The Soothing Art of Consistency
Each morning, around the 8am hour, my car curves around a corner and I see the same familiar sight: two people out for a walk, clad in matching red parkas. It was 23 degrees this morning. The chill was of no concern for these two friends on their stroll. Clouds of breath were visible…
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City Girl Confessions: Knocking Out The Scary Bits
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column in The Glencoe Anchor. It’s the most wonderful time of year…for me. I am positively delighted by Halloween and all of its orange-and-black spooky splendor. I’ve been this way since I was a kid, poring over costume ideas and scouting haunted houses while immersing myself in scary books…
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City Girl Confessions: The Magic in the Mess
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column in The Glencoe Anchor. If you want to see my anxiety shoot through the roof, just say the word ‘messy.’ I get a little cringe-y and creeped out when it comes to certain things, and let’s just say that paint, play dough, clay, and slime are the stuff…
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Green Kitchen Nostalgia
I just came across this photo of Anne Hathaway’s California Country kitchen and it gave me a wave of nostalgia…the kitchen in my previous house was the same sage green color as her cabinets. Green has always been an important color in my life and, surprisingly so, my marriage. My (only!) tattoo is green. My…
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City Girl Confessions: A Moment to Savor
City Girl Confessions is my recurring column featured in The Glencoe Anchor. This morning, I walked out of my house excited to meet up with a friend. Just one problem- a large carpenter’s van was blocking my car in the driveway (I had forgotten that one of our kitchen cabinets needed repairing). Hmm…what to do?…
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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: 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 