Laura Billings Coleman
writer | editor
Pet Therapy
With anxiety and mental health problems on the rise at college campuses, therapy dogs join the faculty.
Knitting Pearls
Book review: Ann Hood’s latest anthology helps explain why knitting is so often the life sport of the literary set: Novels and Norwegian mittens require hours of sitzfleisch, and provide proof that “small amounts are cumulative.”
Missing "Downton Abbey"?
Helen Simonson’s new novel might help.
Our Pilgrim's Progress
We let Ancestry.com chart our course for this Family Fun road trip tracing the sailors and Salem witches in our family tree.
When to Sit, When to Stand?
Since reporting this story for Fast Company, I’ve made my own health rule: stand up Monday-Thursday, knock off early on Fridays.
Complications of Consent
As the conversation about campus sexual violence builds momentum, so too have reported cases nationwide. A 2014 study from the Washington Post found there were more than 3,900 reports of sexual offenses on college campuses in 2012, a 50 percent surge over the past three years.
The Boundary Waters for Beginners
A great family trip to the B.W.C.A. requires guts, endurance–and an escape plan.
Laura Billings Coleman is a Minnesota-based journalist and freelance writer. A former columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mademoiselle and Mpls/St. Paul, her reporting and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Outside, Fast Company, SELF, Salon and many other publications. She is the principal and project manager at Pro Bono Press, a creative firm specializing in communications and development strategies for nonprofits, foundations, colleges and community causes.