Barb Shelly is a veteran journalist who lives in Philadelphia and is sentimentally attached to Kansas City. She is a metro columnist at heart, and keeps her writing close to her community.
As a recent transplant, I feel a personal involvement with the election runups in three separate states: Pennsylvania, because I live here now; and Missouri and Kansas, because up until last year I lived three blocks from the state line separating those two. In Philadelphia, the scene is comparatively sedate.
Everybody has a story and, here in this city of talkers, people often tell me snippets of theirs. Storytelling is the oldest, most honest form of connection, and I can’t get enough of it.
As many of the people who mighgt come to this page know, I am a transplant. Less than a year ago I lived in Kansas City. My husband and I owned our two-story house with a basement and garage. We owned two cars and we drove just about everywhere.
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