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A Day in the Life of a Homeless Outreach Officer 

COMO Magazine’s “Day in the Life” series features Columbia pros (and amateurs) who do their part to keep the globe spinning and make life better for the rest...

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Am I Being Funny Yet

Local comic dishes on COMO’s standup scene Imagine yourself on a stage.   You’re standing up there by yourself with a microphone in your hand. You’re tired from working...

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A Day in the (Culinary) Life

Alan Petersen is the director of Culinary Performance Services for the University of Missouri Athletics Department. He recently tracked a day in his work and home life. Please...

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The Science of Faith

The Bible tells the story of Old Testament heroes Caleb and Joshua as two of the 12 spies dispatched to Canaan by Moses to see if it was...

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The Giving Chef

Gaby Weir Vera nourishes young minds at Windsor Street Montessori School Once there was a chef who loved inspiring change. But, even more, she loved making food for...

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COMO People: Same book, different page

MU English professor gains unexpected perspective with prison outreach “What happens when the world ends and you have to start over? What do you look back on? What...

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COMO Goes Way Back to School

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Jeremy & Erin Brown

How did you meet? Jeremy: Our respective roommates were getting married, and we were both in the wedding. About a week before the wedding, they cornered us separately...

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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....

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Cory and Misha Shea

How did you meet? Misha: We met back in 2000 when we were both working at a restaurant called Earl’s in Edmonton, Alberta. I actually don’t remember meeting...