Don’t judge me for buying souvenirs!  I love Americana kitsch and sending care packages and souvenirs are always so cheap that they make great components to care packages and and and… yeah, I have a problem.  To be fair, though, most of this is going to go into care packages and/or become gifts for some [...]

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Now for something completely different, or perhaps I should introduce it as a nice break from the relentless beauty of SD?  Anyway, above is my second video for StandUpSD’s website.  I spent some time with the Campaign for Healthy Families last week and sat down with their regional field director to find out where volunteers [...]

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Today, the fun(ny) stuff in SD: Wall Drug, the Corn Palace, Deadwood/Bike week, etc.  I love that SD has been able to embrace the absurd without falling into kind of sad.

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I thought I’d be able to sum up my 56 tour of “South Dakota’s Greatest Hits” in one post.  I was amazed, however, at how SD manages to be alternately beautiful and funny.  Today I’ll show you some of the natural or “serious” beauty and save the photos from Wall Drug and the Corn Palace [...]

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I don’t know why I thought Sioux Falls, SD was named Sioux Falls… apparently there are actual waterfalls here!  When somebody told me this I thought they were crazy, turns out they were right.  They’re small falls, but waterfalls none the less.

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So, it wasn’t entirely untrue when I told you that I haven’t been creative lately.  My work at Planned Parenthood in Sioux Falls has been the best kind of challenging!  I have to be creative but stay within our message, I get to be politically engaged but on a level that I really, really enjoy.  [...]

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There are very, very few things about which I am certain.  Frankly, when I signed a one-year lease I nearly had a panic attack.  How could I possibly know I was going to be in one city for a year?  And, actually, I wasn’t.  My 5 weeks in SD comes right at the end of [...]

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I can’t possibly be the only one who likes to photograph and catalog all the mail she gets, right?
Jon very sweetly forwarded all my mail to me out in South Dakota this week– a few birthday cards, some University bills, and a new Japanese craft book!  I am so excited about this new book.  I [...]

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Yesterday I got my Sioux Falls, SD library card.  Maybe I’ll be admitting how nerdy I am, but I now have three active library cards: Washington DC, University, and Sioux Falls.  Frankly, my priority when I move to a new city is find the central library and get my library card.  I usually do this [...]

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Yesterday I got to leave the campaign a little early– luckily busy bosses don’t make their staff wait around all day.  I went by the coop to drop off a few fliers and pick up my week’s worth of groceries, including the fixings for bouchons.  As soon as I got home I started to work [...]

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