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RoCo visits a business in the area, meeting its owner/s and customers, and sampling what it has to offer.

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RoCo visits a business in the area, meeting its owner/s and customers, and sampling what it has to offer.

Having Some Laughs With George and Holly Stone of Clarksville Commons

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All images courtesy of Robert and Colleen Morgenthau, i.e., Akbi Khan. If. the non/fiction hybrid of it all is too much for you, well, then I can’t help you. Also it totally is for me, too! 🙂  I’m not going to lie to you, HoCo readers, I was having some, shall we say, personal issues when I went to meet George and Holly Stone at the Clarksville Commons (TCC) to talk about their community-nurturing, in-it-for-the-long-haul, forward-looking-and-thinking business called Clarksville Commons. Up until five minutes prior to meeting with them, I was on my cell phone hearing, essentially, “Here’s some stuff … Read more

Gabbing With David Saunier of human | creative + code, Building a HoCo Business

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Dear HoCo Diary, A little-known Colleen Morgenthau fact–mostly because it just doesn’t come up that often–is that I have a Master’s in Rhetoric. My interest in the field was and is rather traditional, in the sense that it has to do with the nuts and bolts of language, in particular tropes and figures, and their persuasive effects, the scholarship which was mostly done pre-20th-century. I thought of this phrase “nuts and bolts” as I walked up once again to Cured/18th & 21st, where I’d been two weeks ago to talk to local restaurateur Vince Culotta. I caught myself smiling goofily … Read more

A Rap Session With Vince Culotta of Cured/18th & 21st

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As I gathered my belongings on my way out the door of our home-on-wheels, I could sense Moses getting antsy at my impending departure. He was scurrying about the RV after me wagging his tail and looking up at me with those big, expectant dog-eyes. “Moses–stay!” I snapped at him and immediately felt like a meanie mom for doing so. As I put the strap of my crossbody sling over my head, my motions slowed down. I had that feeling of waking up disoriented from a nap, flashing back to countless mornings when I’d be preparing to leave our apartment … Read more