After wild year, some small KC retailers say holiday surge may keep them alive in 2021 Kevin Hardy and Joyce Smith, The Kansas City Star
Dec. 19 Holly Pollard compares herself to a first-time mother who gives birth to twins: Everyone around may pity her, but the mom doesn t know any different.
Popular Searches This is my first year so everything will seem easy after this, said Pollard, who purchased the longtime Brookside Toy & Science shop just six months before the COVID-19 pandemic came to Kansas City.
Across the Kansas City area, many small retailers like Pollard say they are hanging on with hopes of finishing this wildly unpredictable year on a surprisingly strong note.
Here s the thing: I actually really enjoy baking. I could happily spend an evening binge-watching
The Great British Baking Show whilst delving into some kind of homemade puff pastry creation that I, in a perfect world, lovingly crafted earlier in the afternoon during my copious amounts of free time on a random Tuesday.
(Insert dream montage here.)
OK, now let s get back to the real world. Even though I still love to bake my own from-scratch creations, ESPECIALLY after the year we ve had, I m kinda exhausted. You?
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That s one of things I love about
Plus a lot of happy, merry holiday programs! Diane Gordon
Dec. 18, 2020, 3:59 p.m. PT
We re halfway through December and that means 2020 is slowly crawling to a close. For your year-end streaming fun, Netflix has a bunch of new holiday shows and other gifts for subscribers. On Christmas Day, you ll want to check out Shonda Rhimes first Netflix series,
Bridgerton, a period drama that s features a hot-looking cast and plenty of intrigue. There s also
Mank, the much-anticipated new film from David Fincher that takes place in 1940s Hollywood and stars Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried. And don t forget about the new
This cake has layers of Genoise sponge cake, buttercream and strawberries, and is topped with rolled-out marzipan.
Typically, I do not bake a cake for my birthday because someone else does. But this birthday, because everything was so dismal around me, I felt like baking a special cake to lift my spirits.
Let me provide some context. Two things happened this year the Covid-19 pandemic, of course, and my mother’s passing. My birthday arrived in this sea of grief, almost like it should not have. But it did, because birthdays cannot skip a year, well, unless you are a leapling someone born on February 29.
6 Not-So-Serious Resolutions And One Heartfelt One For 2021
Anne T. Donahue on the resolutions we all need and deserve this new year. Anne T. Donahue Updated
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So, what did we learn this year? That even the most logical person will inexplicably hoard toilet paper? Or that screaming into the night is a viable weekend pastime?
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that assuming that 2021 will provide a blank enough slate to hold our hopes and dreams is a bit naive, at best. The world has changed, and so have new year’s resolutions. Reader, these are the resolutions we all need and deserve.