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Hundreds of community members and representatives of local organizations rallied at South Park on Saturday, urging Kansans to oppose a constitutional amendment that would remove legal protections of abortion in Kansas.
To the editor: 1957. In triple overtime, North Carolina defeated Kansas for the national championship. In the post-game locker room, Wilt Chamberlain’s hea
I woke up underwater. Icy cold. Lungs useless. Instinctively, I kicked and flailed. My backpack, clothes, and boots held me down. Why was I having such a hard time getting to the surface? I didn’t know that I had broken a wrist, cracked my skull, and fractured two vertebrae in my neck. I had been fly-fishing the Pack River in the northern Idaho backcountry with my friend John. The day was warm and sunny; hemlocks with their shaggy boughs arched over the water. Sunlight dappled through the needles, illuminating every rock in the gin-clear water. We were fishing a pool near a waterfall with ...
Peter Luckey, Lawrence To the editor: While all hell was breaking loose in Washington, D.C., I was visiting my 94-year-old mother in a nursing home in Connecticut. In the coming days, I sat alone in the chair beside Mom’s bed. I listened for her breathing. “Mom, would you like some orange juice?” Weakly, she nodded a yes. With the tip of a straw I lifted the liquid up to her parched lips. On Sunday my brother drove 700 miles in one day to join me. On Tuesday Mom reached for one last gasp of air. My brother and I looked at each other and said, “This is it. She’s gone.”