According to a study from the University of Minnesota’s Rural Health Research Center, even people with solid social networks experience loneliness across the Initiator Fellow Marcella Prokop is developing a social enterprise to combat rural loneliness through creativity and community connection.

Most of my life, poverty had been presented as a moral failure, a result of someone not wanting to work hard enough, or save enough, or some other such belief. As an adult I know better, and we as a society now know better. Learning how to change this belief is part of my definition of success as I get older.

For most of the fall semester, Cedar, my 7-year-old son, has been caught up in the 6-7 craze, where he and friends run around yelling "siiiix seeeveeen" for no apparent reason. The interwebs has told us it's fun for kids to do this because it means nothing and gets our adult goats so thoroughly. My son and his friends have confirmed this.

Being in the middle is a thought-provoking place to be, but it can be a difficult one. Sometimes just having lived that is most beneficial to others.

Talking about Bruno celebrates refugees

Like a whiskey, wine or cider tasting, getting just a swish of flavor is key when trying a bunch of new, unknown apples.

Has Halloween become a time to fear fear, rather than embrace it?