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There is mounting interest, especially in Lawrence, over that half-million dollar dose of heart balm for KU’s departed chancellor, Bernadette Gray-Little. Although Gray-Little left the...

As this past week wrapped up I looked at one of my good friends and said:  ‘How can it be Mother’s Day next week?’ ...

The year we had to put my mother in a nursing home was really traumatic for both her and me. Ever since, Mother’s Day...

         Part cultural icon and part invasive nuisance, tumbleweeds have an intriguing and tangled history. You know, tumbleweeds -- those twisted...

My mom lived at Mission Place for a few years. She had an apartment on the 6th floor across from the elevator. She did...

A few Sundays ago, when the Royals were playing the Red Sox, Boston’s Pablo Sandoval hit a feeble ground ball toward the mound. The...

One of the things I gladly kept in the divorce was my ex-husbands longest friend. Valerie who he had grown up with and were...

 History often has a way with irony. As Phoenix rose from the ashes of its predecessor, cultures and nations have, over the ages, continued...

Paul Davis, the Lawrence attorney who ran for governor against incumbent Sam Brownback, is among notable political experts who see a looming constitutional crisis...

Several years ago on one early spring morning, Nolan Fisher, then manager of Kanopolis State Park and I slipped into a blind overlooking a...