March 2, 2022

Beautiful Boy

Today, I sat in my car in the hospital parking lot and sobbed. It was an ugly, sloppy sobbing that was born of frustration, desperation, and hopeless defeat. I had just walked out the ER doors with my 9 year old in tow. It was the third such visit this year, but this time I […]

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Reaching New Heights 

With nearly 40 years of combined climbing experience, business partners Dave McGee and Wil Palmieri are no strangers to the view from the top — or the challenges you run into getting there. It’s a view, and passion, they hope to share with many other Columbia citizens at their world-class climbing gym, CoMo Rocks.  The

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Back to the Future

It’s fitting that Carolyn Orbann was immersed in research about a global pandemic when COVID-19 hit Columbia in March 2020.  Spurred by the 100-year anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, Carolyn, an associate teaching professor in the department of health sciences at MU, had been studying how Spanish Flu impacted the state of

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Back to the Future

It’s fitting that Carolyn Orbann was immersed in research about a global pandemic when COVID-19 hit Columbia in March 2020.  Spurred by the 100-year anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, Carolyn, an associate teaching professor in the department of health sciences at MU, had been studying how Spanish Flu impacted the state of

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March: Briefly in the News

COMMUNITY 143-home Habitat for Humanity Subdivision Welcomes First Family with Help of Shelter Insurance Keneshia and her 13-year-old son, Kendred, celebrated the completion of their very own Habitat for Humanity home, which was sponsored by Shelter Insurance. This is the first of 143 Habitat homes to be built in the brand-new Habitat subdivision off Brown

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work on a computer together with a brick wall behind them|A brown dog laying down next to a fluffy white stuffed animal on a blue couch with a throw pillow|medical device called a EEG headband on a sculpture of a head|curved reception desk inside of a building with two employees sitting behind the desk chatting|two men standing at a standing desk inside of a small office viewing something on a computer.

Healing in the Metaverse

With just a few clicks on an app called Healium, a user can be transported from their living room couch to breathtaking 360-degree scenic views in a matter of seconds.  Healium offers a wide variety of virtual and augmented reality stories for users to experience, from teleporting to eight countries through magic portals to watching

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