Books

“The past is an inheritance, a gift, and a burden. It can’t be shirked. You carry it everywhere. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it.”
— Jill Lepore

On a January day in 2001, my mother and I sat together in the Gale Family Library at the Minnesota

Everyone is welcome at the Friends for a NonViolent World’s annual Holiday Fair! On December 6th and 7th the Minneapolis

commentary of everyday women about building the future

In “Collapse: Dreaming Another World,” a memoir by Minneapolis attorney-turned-Jungian-analyst Medora Woods, she reflects on whether catastrophic events of late

In a recent visit to the Twin Cities, National Geographic adventurer Erika Bergman, a submarine pilot, and author Trudi Trueit

For more than 40 years, I locked away sexual trauma I experienced as a child. A therapist suggested that I

Trigger warning: This story is the first-person story of a woman who survived sexual assault. It was 50 years ago

This one wild and precious life, as Mary Oliver puts it, does not come with a manual. I read non-fiction to

Did you read any books in your childhood that you found especially inspirational? For me, one of those books was “Auntie Mame: An Irreverent