This is the week we pull the giblets out of the turkey cavity, peel and mash the potatoes and pull out the once-a-year recipes handed down for generations or pulled out of the Taste of Home magazine. This is the week we get an extra day or two off to...

I've never been the kind of person to paint my face the color of my favorite sports team or wear an oversized foam finger on my hand. You'd more likely find me admiring a Monet or Picasso at the art museum or wearing a new cocktail ring on my finger....

Labor Day. Burgers and brats. Friends and family. One in three of us feeling chronically overworked. Huh?

The end-of-summer holiday now solicits images of fun, sun and outdoor grills, it's true. But, before you sit down with a cool one to enjoy much-deserved respite, visit the Families and Work...

Ten years ago in April, the Midwest played host to the largest mass evacuation of an American city since the Civil War--until Katrina. In Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, more than 60,000 people were ordered to evacuate to...

Along with thousands of visitors this week, I visited the site of the collapsed I-35 bridge in Minneapolis. I was struck by the lines of people filing toward and away from the temporary chain link fence at University and I-35, a porta potty nearby to accommodate the crowds drawn to...

This spring I attended the Women's Funding Network (WFN) conference in Seattle.* It was packed with fascinating plenaries and workshops, panels and open discussions.

I met women from Oklahoma and the Netherlands, Wyoming and Africa. There were young women, old women, white women, black women, women wearing suits,...