Stepping Out Of My Comfort Zone
Hey Everybody! Welcome to Crystal's Corner! I am so excited to add this feature to our blog. What better way to ring in my 55th year, than to write my first article, (except for being with family, of course). I [...]
November 2018
September 2018
The Changing Landscape Of Shopping
Some of you will remember back in the day, when shopping was done at small shops owned locally. Over time these were squeezed out by the "big box" department stores. We have noticed that lately there is a sort of [...]
July 2018
13 Lessons From The Road – An Independence Day Special
Today we will part from our normal routine, so that we can look back on the recent past. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on how we got to where we are today. It was about 18 months [...]
May 2018
Sincerely Loving The West Bottoms
The area that we Kansas Citians call the West Bottoms was originally named the French Bottoms. In that area the Kansas Indians and French traders would meet to strike deals. Being along a confluence of two rivers meant good trapping [...]
April 2018
Finding Fiestaware At Cockrell Mercantile Co.
Our plan to visit the southeast corner of the Kansas City metro opened up the window for a few unique stops. The two main areas we would be in were Lee's Summit and Lone Jack, Missouri. When I plan an [...]
January 2018
Hers, Mine and Ours – The Best Foods We Ate In 2017
Recently, we released an article showcasing our Top 10 stops during our travels in 2017. (You can read it here>) We purposely left any food places off of that list, as we wanted to highlight those separately. In this article [...]
Top 10 Spots We Visited In 2017
We launched Our Changing Lives on January 10, 2017, so it seemed fitting to look back at our first year on the one year anniversary. It’s hard to fathom the changes that have occurred in the past 365 days, and [...]
January 2017
Quirky Finds at Easy, Tiger
It is amazing to hear the background stories from some of the businesses around town. People can be very inventive when they launch a start-up, and if successful, the business may slowly transform into something almost unrecognizable. Such is the [...]