What is gratitude? The American Psychological Association says that gratitude is a positive emotion similar to appreciation — a sense of happiness and thankfulness. Did you know that gratitude can also have health and well-being benefits? It’s true! The American Heart Association cites ...
Trying to get in touch with a primary care doctor can be difficult. You call, meander through the automated prompts, and oftentimes don’t speak to your doctor directly. This is for good reason: there’s a nationwide shortage of primary care physicians. Family doctors generally have to take ...
An overarching goal in health care is preventing and treating infections. But did you know that there’s a specific team dedicated to just that task? Stan Stuckey has seen a lot during the 20 years he’s spent working in the field of infection prevention. He began his career at Truman ...
Nearly 30 years ago, Robin Ward was a passenger on the back of a motorcycle traveling near Bryce Canyon, Utah, when she was involved in an accident. “We hit a deer at about 60 miles per hour and it’s amazing that we even survived,” she said. “My right knee hurt and was swollen, but ...
Stan Hernly knows the possibilities of old homes. After all, he started his Lawrence architecture practice in an old home along Tennessee Street. It was more than 35 years ago that he founded his architecture practice, Hernly Associates, in that 1907 house, and since then the firm has grown ...
As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago; the second-best time is today. This is true even in the fall. In regions with four seasons, many tree species have better success rates when transplanted in the fall or winter rather than spring. Plant trees now, or spend ...
Sweet corn and popcorn are popular vegetable garden crops with a rich history of cultivation in North America. They are closely related to each other, to flint corn and flower corn, to the starchy field corn produced in large fields across the country, and to maize produced by Native Americans ...
What is the best way to water an indoor plant? Like so many things in gardening, the answer depends on a variety of factors. The most common methods are top watering, bottom watering and immersion watering. They all have pros and cons, but each one has a place in indoor plant care. Top ...
It’s the dog days of summer at Jefferson’s — hot dogs, that is. Jefferson’s Restaurants are celebrating the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics with a special promotion today, July 26, offering free hot dogs to any guest who brings in an award — whether it’s a ...
Italian porchetta is a special dish of spit-roasted pork flavored with herbs, fennel and garlic. It's delicious, but much too involved for a weeknight dinner. To give pork chops the same flavor profile with less work, we narrowed the ingredients to those best suited for searing on the ...
Many recipes for Indian curries such as tikka masala and butter chicken call for copious amounts of butter, yogurt and cream to give them a rich, satisfying texture. For a lighter vegetarian interpretation of the takeout classic, meaty cremini mushrooms stand in for chicken and pureed cashews ...
A good salad strikes a perfect balance of textures and flavors, but it's easy to overdo it with rich ingredients, especially when striving to add savory elements. For a vegetarian salad that hits all the right notes, combine tangy cheese with meaty mushrooms and bitter greens. In this recipe ...
Daily Ottawa Northern Railroad (formerly the Midland Railway), “The Santa Rocket” Christmas Train, departing several times daily between Nov. 30 and Dec. 30, 1515 High St., Baldwin City. See ottawanorthernrailroad.com for times and tickets. Thursday, Nov. 28 runLawrence Thanksgiving Day ...
The sounds of Christmas in downtown Lawrence aren’t always coming from a caroler or a brass horn. On one Saturday a year, it is a click and a clop — and an occasional whinny, too. Indeed, horses — and decorated carriages and wagons — will take center stage on downtown Lawrence’s ...
Some people’s hobbies are fishing or watching sports. Others like to paint or read books. Kent Fisher’s hobby is Christmas lights. Kent is the mastermind behind Santa’s Lights, an elaborate Christmas light display — set to music — that he and his wife, Chris Fisher, put on at their ...
Friday, Nov. 29 • Festival of Trees Viewing Hours, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Maceli’s, 1301 New Hampshire St. Suggested donation for adults and ages 7-plus. • Bizarre Bazaar, 5-9 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. • Downtown Holiday Lighting Ceremony and Annual Santa Rescue, ...
Most of the rural schools in Douglas County are identified by a name as well as a number. An exception to this norm is “No. 6.” Goldie Piper Daniels, in her 1974 history of the educational buildings in our county, notes that the name “Crutchfield” was found attached to No. 6 on an ...
On the east side of Iowa Street, between 19th and 23rd streets, stands the United States Army Reserve Training Center, which bears the name of Samuel J. Churchill. Churchill is one of two Medal of Honor recipients to have been Lawrence residents and to be buried here. Churchill was ...
On the east side of the 700 block of Vermont Street, you can see a small bronze plaque on a brick building at about eye level. It tells of a First Methodist Church that once stood there, which was built in 1857 and was used as morgue following Quantrill’s Raid on Aug. 21, 1863. More than ...
The electric streetcars in Lawrence may have fallen out of favor, but at least one new neighborhood they made possible is still here. Breezedale — Lawrence’s first identifiable suburban neighborhood — is at the southern end of Massachusetts Street. It was developed by Charles E. Sutton, ...
