Laura Billings Coleman
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A Turkish shopping adventure Originally published in the Salon.com anthology Wanderlust If there is something missing from the American...

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...

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...

According to the Census Bureau, nearly 35 million Americans claim Irish ancestry. No such records are kept for those of us who are Irish...

Originally published in Mpls/St. Paul magazine, March 2012 On a bluebird morning last March, I slid off the chairlift for my family’s...

Editor's Note: This story was written in more than a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic. Did I stock up on pantry staples like I...

The Washington Post October 27, 2002 Sunday Final Edition ST. PAUL As soon as the news of the plane crash flashed across TV screens at...

What happens when a young chick-lit reader falls in love with the ultimate boy book? My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and...

Today is World Diabetes Day, an international day of awareness for a chronic illness that will affect the lives of one in three children...

The official reason I took a four-month break from filing this column was so I could spend some quality time taking care of my third son,...