Cow hugging is the latest wellness trend and for good reason: It helps people feel whole. It’s simple to boot, an activity that’s exactly what it sounds like. While it’s been big in Europe for years, it recently made a name for itself in the US, an Angus amenity that many animal lovers can’t wait to experience. It provides us with physical and mental health benefits and, naturally, an improved “moo-ed.” Cow hugging (or “koe knuffelen”) originated in the Netherlands in the t

We drove to St. Louis in the middle of the morning, like ships in the night leaving port with little fanfare. I sat in the backseat of my parents' Toyota Celica watching the Rocky Mountains vanish in the side-view mirror, going, going, gone⸺part of Mother Nature’s auction, selling her beauty to the highest bidder. Four weeks earlier, I would have never imagined myself in this situation: Plucked from my sixth-grade class and relocated to Missouri, the Show Me State. And show

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As the person who reads my writing knows (thanks, Mom!), my daughter is an animation addict. Once upon a time, Frozen was her Disney drug of choice. It got so bad that I fervently hoped they’d write the sequel as a five-minute short where Olaf dates a heat lamp and Elsa and Anna reenact the final scene from Thelma and Louise . No such luck, of course, so I had to freeze my daughter out of Frozen myself. Unfortunately, this involved pushing her towards other movies that gree