Laura Billings Coleman
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Fifty-five years have passed since Frederick Cook–polar explorer, former Leavenworth inmate–stepped onto that great ice floe in the sky,...

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,...