Brandon Dorge and Alison Stokes first met over a bag of Funyuns while at a party hosted by a mutual friend. The two of them joked while sharing the onion-flavored snacks, but by the end of the evening, they really only knew each other’s names. A year later, Brandon caught Alison’s attention while […]
I had the pleasure of helping my good friend Beth Campbell and her husband, Ryan, to recreate her master suite. We totally transformed the room by creating the focal wall behind the couple’s bed with a beautiful wallpaper by York named Boho Chic. Johnston Paint and Decorating supplied the pre-pasted, washable and strippable wallcovering, which
No matter the emotional or physical pain she sees, the sleepless nights she faces, and the days that never slow down, Mary Meyer keeps working, pushing and wanting to do more. Her life revolves around pediatric physical therapy. During her undergraduate studies at The University of Missouri, she had different plans, but pediatric orthopedics presented
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If I had a dollar for every coffee mug I own that says “Go Away I’m Reading,” well, I suppose I would have two dollars. But, my point is that these coffee mugs speak to an obvious but important truth about reading: it’s a solitary activity. Increasingly, though, people are looking to find ways
A college professor’s enthusiasm can come from odd places, like the thrill of strengthening collagen cells by affixing them with gold nanoparticles in a bioengineering lab and then publishing a research paper about it. Before she became an entrepreneur, Sheila Grant had simple motivations. “I didn’t have any aspirations to own a company,” she says.
When Emily Clapp was 18 years old, she desperately wanted to leave her birthplace of Columbia. After graduating from Hickman High School, she made her escape to Chicago for college. But in 2008, something called her back home. That something was the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, and more specifically the Chamber’s newest division, EPIC (Emerging
In 2006, Karen Mareck Grundy saw a void in the Columbia community. As progressive as the city was, she says, especially in the arts, dance was an essential niche needing to be filled. And so began mid-Missouri’s only professional ballet company, Missouri Contemporary Ballet. “I just feel like, as a dancer myself, dance is always
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The Missouri Life Science Business Incubator is set to add a second wing to its facility, according to Bill Turpin, president and CEO of the Missouri Innovation Center. The new wing is expected to take two to three years to complete and fill up with emerging businesses within three to five years. Turpin says the
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My curiosity was piqued from the very first email. Asked to write about a new “makerspace” for the kids of our community, I was introduced to school board member Jonathan Sessions. “So this is even crazier,” Sessions wrote with enthusiasm. “It’s not just a space; it’s a bus!” He went on to describe the project
