Laura Billings Coleman
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Surviving the pandemic put serious pressure on Minnesota’s small businesses.  By Laura Billings Coleman | From the Fall 2020 Edition of...

People have been asking me what I remember about Nick’s final recitation of “Who Dares to Say,” and I have to tell them that not one of...

May 15, 2018 To our dear friends, My impetuous and Homeric husband, Nicholas Joseph Coleman, recent gold medal winner of the 2018...

With a reality star in the White House and late-night comedy ratings soaring, Ariel Dumas ’05 has found the perfect time to succeed in...

Few people have studied the optics of abortion as closely as Amy Hagstrom Miller ’89, which is why she put on a bright purple suit the...

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

Book review for Star Tribune It’s 1914 in Helen Simonson’s new novel, “The Summer Before the War,” and while the world is holding its...

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...

A Beginner’s Guide to the Boundary Waters If you are raising children in Minnesota, it is your duty to take them to the Boundary Waters...

Editor's Note: One of my favorite health columns from Mpls/St. Paul , probably because going for regular hikes is the one health...

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...

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (Harper Collins, 320 pages, $28.99, 320 pages) Book review, originally published in...

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,...