A Turkish shopping adventure By Laura Billings If there is something missing from the American Shopping Experience — and if you’ve been to the Mall of America, as I have, you know not much has been overlooked — it is the act of bargaining. Not buying...
I wrote this little essay for the back page of Macalester Today, and I love the illustration Eric Hanson did for it. I’d never be caught dead in pedal pushers or a floral print, but he got our dog just right.
I’m at work on a project about America’s growing fascination with geneaology, and this travel story in the May 2015 Family Fun (“The Secrets of Happy Travelers”) is one of the byproducts. We’re particularly interested in this Groton,...
Can you love animals and eat them, too? Originally published in Mpls/St. Paul magazine, October 2008 Though I’ve been a meat-eater most of my life, I’ve always been squeamish about its preparation. I prefer not to touch bacon until it’s been burned...
A friend of mine got a degree from a top-flight business school and took a job at one of those Fortune 500 companies where “full-time” means a minimum of 60 hours a week. At first she loved the pace, the travel, the nicely padded expense account, and the...
Safe Harbor By Laura Billings Coleman Mpls/St. Paul magazine, June 2009 Legend has long claimed that the veil between the human and animal worlds is very thin the farther the sun gets from the earth, so maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised to find myself standing...
