Even if it’s just an hour a day, Lawrence author Sarah Henning always finds time to write. Henning recently released "Sea Witch Rising," her second novel in just more than a year, all while holding down a full-time marketing job, running ultramarathons and raising two kids. To keep up, Henning said she lives and dies by her schedule. Almost every day, she is awake before 5 a.m. to go for a run. Afterward, ...
Looking into her rearview mirror while driving through the Colorado wilderness, University of Kansas alumna Elsa Pageler always has her home in sight — all 13 feet of it. Pageler, 28, has been living on the road in a Scamp trailer with her partner, Barron Link, and a Shiba Inu named Kamp for almost three years. She documents their adventures and challenges on her Youtube channel, which currently has almost ...
Fields and Ivy Brewery head chef Kodiak Baer, 22, is a newcomer to Lawrence's culinary scene, but his ratatouille bars impressed judges and the audience enough to win the Douglas County Fair’s Chefs Challenge Thursday night. Each year at the fair, chefs compete to prepare a dish using a specific kind of local produce. This year's featured ingredient was tomatoes, which Douglas County Master Food Volunteer ...
Teaming up with the Kansas City Royals and Royals Charities, Lawrence police officers are now packing “Cops Are Topps” baseball cards to hand out to the community while they're on patrol. Lawrence Police Sgt. Amy Rhoads said officers started handing out the trading cards recently to help build a closer relationship with the younger Lawrence community. “I handed out some cards this morning, and the kids ...
Zoning out during an engineering lecture, KU student Michael Srimongkolkul and his friends were distracted on their laptops in November 2017 when one of Srimongkolkul’s friends shared some information he found on a solar car competition. They were instantly hooked. “I had no prior experience with cars, electric vehicles or batteries ... so I thought (creating a solar car) would be a good place to get ...
After two months of work, young artists at Van Go unveiled 20 vibrant handmade benches to their clients and the community on Friday. The unveiling event was the culmination of the arts-based social service agency's annual Benchmark program, and Van Go program director Kristen Malloy said it was also an opportunity to celebrate how much the apprentice artists had grown while working on their pieces. “This ...