"Once you’ve raced, you never forget it … and you never get over it." Richard Childress
The year was 1939. Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. A gallon of gas cost 10 cents, the average price of a new car was $700[...]
Think you can pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time? (Go ahead. We’ll wait.) How about text and drive at the[...]
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. Tommy Lasorda
Seventeen-year-old Xzaviar Aune spent his first few years in and out of the hospital, as doctors treated a host of heart problems: newborn persistent pulmonary hypertension,[...]
The idea first took shape on a napkin. Joel Gordon, M.D., a Family Medicine physician at Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, had been troubled[...]
"How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world." Anne Frank
When she was 12 years old, Shannon O'Hara told Rochester's KTTC-TV, "My life is going to mean something to someone, somewhere." That was 2011, and[...]
When Joseph Dearani, M.D., and colleagues in the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mayo Clinic started an Ebstein's Anomaly -- Mayo Clinic Facebook page, their[...]
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike
What kind of anniversary does a 2-year-old have to celebrate? If you're Addie Sylvester, you have a transplantaversary. (Yup, that's a thing.) And Addie recently[...]
Those of us who call Rochester, Minnesota, home like to joke about its landmark corn-cob water tower and say we'd like to leave in the[...]