Some background: I didn’t grow up doing team sports. My Latina mother encouraged ballet, swimming, gymnastics, cheerleading, even track. She scoffed at the idea of women playing soccer, field hockey,...
Julie Wearn (above left) likes to think outside the box…and dream BIG. In early 2016, Wearn approached her colleague Liz Ostrander (above right) with an idea. Wearn wanted to create...
Only an hour and a half from the Twin Cities lies the vibrant city of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Nestled on the Chippewa River, Eau Claire is becoming quite the up...
Finding the motivation to begin, and maintain, an exercise program can sometimes be harder than the workout itself. Attempting to seek out the drive you need to get to the...
June is my favorite month of the year. Sure June is summer, warmth, sunshine and fun, but the reason I love June is because June is Pride Month. Our little...
Full disclosure: I was Miss Minnesota 2003. {Photo credit: Paula Preston} Yup, that’s me in the hot pink satin, 15 years ago, 25 pounds ago, two kids and a marriage...
After a long, tortuous winter, summer is finally upon us. And for Minnesotans, that means one thing: getting outside. June is National Great Outdoors month. I doubt any of us...
I was convinced I didn’t want kids. Motherhood was something that I never thought was for me. I told myself it was because I was afraid of what pregnancy would...
As a child of the 80s and 90s, I vividly remember McGruff the Crime Dog and the mustached D.A.R.E. officer who opened his squad car to my 4th grade class....
In 2018, postpartum depression is being talked about more and more in public as more mothers are opening up to share their experience. But, the process to bring postpartum depression...
Every day all over the world, children are laughing and crying, playing and learning, eating and sleeping. They may not look the same. They may not speak the same language....
