Motherhood is as ubiquitous to human life as is its meaning and impact impossible to overstate. Perhaps this is why[…]
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Characters on Parade at the Minneapolis May Day Festival
The annual May Day Festival is a mix of hippie, pagan, bohemian, eclectic, and other alternative arts and fashions rolled into[…]
Read moreInterview With a Mother and Fiance of a 2016 Innercity Homicide Victim
Andre Riley Jr. was shot and killed at a late-night block party July 3, 2016. The shooters thought he was[…]
Read moreMy Interview on ESLauthority.com, a Great Resource for Teaching Abroad
I’m guessing most of you have considered (or have) traveled abroad. I’m also guessing many of you (or someone you[…]
Read moreThe Concept of Money: Unfamiliar, Yet Necessary
Money. It’s been said by many smart people over many years that we ought to teach financial literacy to schoolchildren.[…]
Read moreFund Drive for Tanzania School — Culminating on the 50th Floor
Remember 2014? That was the year Russia annexed Crimea, the year of the Ebola outbreak, the year Germany won the[…]
Read moreVideo: Spring Walleyes in a Creek in Northern Minnesota
The moist, form-fitting earth around footsteps in the forest, the budding green grass below and buds above, and the trickle[…]
Read moreAmy Helps a Boy With HIV Who Needs to Be Rushed to the Hospital
This Easter weekend, we introduce traveler, volunteer, and heartfelt thinker Amy Petersen. Having spent time in some of the toughest environments[…]
Read moreHumility, Openness, and the Path to Growth: What I Learned From My Work Performance Review
Last Wednesday I walked into the CEO’s office at the school I work for. This day had been on my[…]
Read moreMinnesota Man Shoots Caribou…Grizzly Takes It: New Video Story
Back in ’01 (2001, that is), old outdoorsman Richard Ferdig finally got his chance to bag a caribou in Alaska.[…]
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