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Living Missouri Life

02/05/10

Perfect Winter Day

Try this if the winter blahs have set in

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01/11/10

Comfort Food on Cold Missouri Days

Wintry days call for casseroles.

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Severe Clear

12/18/09

Severe Clear

I don’t have a window in my office, but I have a great view anyway.

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Saving Grace B. Jones

11/25/09

Saving Grace B. Jones

Connie Stevens premieres Saving Grace B. Jones.

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The Magnificent, Magical Missouri River Float

10/16/09

The Magnificent, Magical Missouri River Float

Three days. Twelve people. Forty miles on the magnificent Missouri River.

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Meet Me at the Fair!

08/05/09

Meet Me at the Fair!

We have a booth at two big fairs

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St. Jo Stories

07/22/09

St. Jo Stories

A quick trip to the headquarters of the Pony Express yields fascinating stories.

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Meet Daniel Boone and his biographer

07/14/09

Meet Daniel Boone and his biographer

Boone and Filson reenactors will appear at the Boone Home at Defiance.

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An unusual gift

06/18/09

An unusual gift

Arrowheads overflow our house, but this is the most creative use I've ever seen.

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06/04/09

Getting Greener

Missouri Life uses post-consumer waste recycled paper

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About This Blog

Danita Allen Wood, Missouri Life editorDanita Allen Wood is editor-in-chief and co-owner of the magazine, along with her husband, Greg Wood. They bought and revived the magazine in 1999. Since then, it has won multiple awards from the International Regional Magazine Association, including Magazine of the Year in 2008. Danita will share her journeys around the state, some of the behind-the-scenes stories about making the magazine, and reflections on life in Missouri.

Danita has spent her entire career making magazines, first at Meredith Corporation, the publisher of Better Homes & Gardens, Ladies Home Journal, Midwest Living, Country Home, Wood, Successful Farming and other magazines. There, she was the founding editor of a million-circulation magazine, Country America, that was named one of Five Best Magazines of 1991 and made the Top 10 Hottest magazines list for thee years in a row while she was editor. Then she served as the Meredith Chair for Service Journalism at the world-famous University of Missouri School of Journalism for 10 years, where she taught editing, publishing, writing, or reporting classes.

She and Greg have three children, one who works for the magazine and two in college. Danita and Greg own a farm near Boonville and raise fox trotters. Besides horseback riding, she enjoys gardening and bicycling, and anything outdoors.

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