Home again

Some cow friends in downtown Golden City, Missouri

Just as in the feeling of peeling off layers at the beginning of my trip. I come home naked- half forgetting who I am. Where does the lady that lives here put things?  I've forgotten my grievances with this neighbor or that co-worker. What's better; they have forgotten their grievances with me. 

It is an altered state I am in.The dizziness from a long drive, and the forgetting. Forgetting how I fit in or how I don't.

Cement Cadillac by Claes Van Oldenburg at University of Chicago

I had an amazing time in the Heartland and the rustbelt. It's not what you think. I loved everyone I met in Missouri, Kansas, Detroit, my artist friends in Chicago, Wolf Point. I loved playing the jukeboxes and eating burgers and playing pool with the kids in Oakley, Kansas at the beginning of a tornadic storm system. It was amazing to watch it form out in the green fields and follow it across the state. And scary as hell to be caught up in it. 

Dust from a truck while observing the beginning of tornado weather in the fields of Kansas

Fresh Mexican food truck elguapogrill.com in Detroit at Eastern Market

I loved visiting with my friends and relatives in Detroit especially Oma, my first boss

Irene, AKA Oma has been working at Miller Brothers an iconic creamery/grocery store since 1955

Attending a Conceptual Performance; The Chicago Correspondance School Dinner with my artist friends at the famous Berghoff's, the oldest restaurant in Chicago.

My favorite lunch spot in Jasper, Missouri. I had a butterscotch malt and a barbecue rib sandwich

 Abandoned pharmacy in Wolf Point, Montana


I had Mother's Day Lunch at my favorite restaurant, Corky's Diner in Golden City, Missouri with this gentleman stranger who had just lost his wife last year. We were both grateful for the company.

And of course traveling with Chance. He was the best. Here he is putting on the dog in Chicago. 

Was the first shower ever to be installed in my 110 year old house while I was gone- actually put in? You'll have to wait for my next post!