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Amy Gehling is not the type to sit idly by. Ideas and interests spring to her mind on a regular basis, and she can’t seem to help staying busy at all times. She spent her childhood surrounded by [...]

For as long as he can remember, Nate Rueckert has loved baseball. He began to play at age four and spent his whole childhood immersed in the game. He would go on to play throughout his high [...]

The business community has a complex relationship with youth. Young people are looked at both as innovators crucial to future progress and as naive brats with no clue what they’re talking about. [...]

Laura Jenson was, for a long time, afraid of horses. A horse is a reasonable thing to be afraid of—they are half-ton, muscle-bound beasts after all—and Jenson’s fear was especially justifiable: [...]

For most, the summer after graduating high school is spent waiting tables, delivering pizzas, begging big siblings for beer, and generally savoring a final chance to ignore the harsh, tax-filled [...]

A yoga class can be an intimidating experience. Regular practice boasts impressive benefits, potentially helping with pain prevention, increased flexibility, and weight loss. But, for the anxious [...]

Being a working woman in 2016 is easier than being a working woman in 1966, but still not as easy as being a working man. For all our advances in gender equality, the challenge of caring for kids [...]

Birth is literally the single most universal human experience. Every life has to begin somewhere and, since we haven’t (yet!) evolved to be able to reproduce by fission, we’re stuck with the [...]

Rob Hodgdon grew up geeky. A childhood love of Star Wars and Star Trek evolved into a lifelong fascination with technology, and he carried that interest through his college years at St. Thomas [...]

Kids are expensive. The cost of raising a child to age eighteen is estimated at around $300 thousand, and that’s not counting a college education or the substantial emotional toll of living with [...]