Originally published in Mpls/St. Paul magazine, March 2012 On a bluebird morning last March, I slid off the chairlift for my family’s first run of the day at Lutsen, and surveyed the wintery scene. To the south, the Midwest’s only mountain tram was already running at...
Today’s New York Times has an interesting Retro Report covering the story of Keiko, a killer whale who became an unlikely celebrity in the 1990s. I was one of the ridiculous number of reporters who covered Keiko’s “rehabilitation” at the Oregon...
How Macalester helps its global citizens cope with the move to college. Where are you from? It’s a simple conversation starter heard daily in dorm rooms, classrooms, and cafeteria lines. But for Esther Biesse ’13 the answer is complicated. “Well, I was born in Paris,”...
Although “nature deficit disorder” may be the latest affliction to trouble today’s computer-glazed, keyboard-tapping kids, new research revealing the medicinal powers of a long day outdoors has literary roots that reach back a century. For instance,...
Ever since I went to the Mayo Clinic to meet James Levine, I’ve been sold on the science of standing up when you work. But aren’t there some tasks that just go better on your butt? I went to the Just Stand summit conference to find out for Fast...
