Top Five Budget Busters
The perfect wedding comes from a perfect budget. For AnnaBelle Events, it’s inquiry season — all the couples who got engaged in the fall and over the holidays are ready to start planning. One of your first steps is building your budget. If you’ve made the wise choice of hiring a wedding planner (nudge, nudge) then […]
Floating Away
A new experience for your self-care regimen. When was the last time it was so quiet that you could hear the rhythm of your breath? So still you could feel your heart beating in your chest? So calm that nothing else mattered? For me, it was just a few hours before writing this. I consider […]
Get Out of Your Culture Zone
The value of trying something new. This month, we asked our COMO Living advisory board to try a new cultural or artistic experience. They shared the results of this experiment with us. Becky Erdel My artistic challenge is to get back to drawing and painting. Art used to be part of my daily life. I taught […]
Honoring Centenarians
Local artist Anastasia Pottinger fell into photographing the elderly by accident. Six years ago, Stacie’s mother was the personal assistant to an adventurous 101-year-old woman. While getting her ready for a massage, she noticed the unique beauty of her skin. Thinking of Stacie’s photography work, her mom asked the woman if she ever had her […]
A Stiff Drink for Winter’s End
DogMaster’s spin on a famed Irish cocktail. I am Van Hawxby, the owner of DogMaster Distillery here in Columbia. We produce whiskeys, rums, and vodkas, and we source our grains and barrels from Central Missouri suppliers. We like to say that you can taste a little bit of Missouri in every sip you take. In […]
Be Olympic with Your Time
How to work hard the right way. Many of us start the new year with great expectation: “This is the year!” Then, a month into it, we find ourselves in nearly the same place we were before the new year began. Thinking we have too many demands, too little time, feeling tired, hungover, flabby. The […]
Home Tour: Loft of Luxury
Berry Building, North Village Arts District Nestled at the intersection of Walnut and Orr streets is the historic Berry Building. Built in the 1924, the 35,000-square-foot post-and-beam building once served as a grocery warehouse before being renovated in 2010. It’s now a cornerstone of the North Village Arts District and the home of 12 luxury loft […]
A Taste of Culture
Local Thai and Indian restaurants put their twist on traditional dishes for COMO Living’s gourmet spread this issue. Thip Thai Restaurant | Chef Kittikoon Chompupong Roasted Duck with Curry A specially prepared spicy red curry with roasted duck, fresh fruit, and herbs. Recipe: Roasted Duck, whole 4lb duck no head or neck. Rinse and clean duck […]
Jill Orr: Look Who’s Talking
Stay woke and slay teen slang. Every generation of teenagers has its own slang. Adults aren’t meant to understand it, and, in fact, that is the whole point. We chose language partly to express our identity, and, since teenagers naturally want to create an identity separate from that of their parents, they use different words, […]
It Takes a Village
More than 8,000 refugees live in mid-Missouri. They’ve fled persecution and danger from around the world and taken their families across borders and oceans. They’ve ended up in the middle of America. For them, success comes from the community that takes them in. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they […]
Be a Tourist in Your Own Town
Take a day to wander. Most townies can remember when Cool Stuff was on Broadway, when the downtown Shakespeare’s was the only Shakespeare’s, and when the tallest building in Columbia wasn’t a parking garage. The District has been through drastic changes in the last five years — apartments are on the rise, parking options and […]
Healing Fear
“I am in a constant state of fear. Can you help me?” This was a powerful request. I immediately wanted to hug her for having the courage to voice what so many of us are unable to. Many people live in fear, consciously or unconsciously. And so many of us want to ask for help […]