"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." John Holmes

Shortly after the 2013 TRANSFORM symposium, Nic Breutzman's phone rang. The symposium had included a discussion about the potential that comics hold in improving communication[...]

Al McFarlane would like to one day say he's not half the man he used to be. McFarlane, of Minneapolis, who once weighed more than[...]

"In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first." George Carlin

When R.J. Trocke-Fowler had to write about a personal hero for a class assignment, he didn’t need to look far for inspiration. He wrote about[...]

Jennifer Giesen was just 13 years old when she’d had enough of obsessive compulsive disorder. It had made her young life such a torment that[...]

"Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good." Thomas Kempis

Greg Widseth tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune that the last thing he remembers is smiling at someone while leaving his son's basketball practice last March.[...]

South by Southwest has become a spectacle and cultural phenomenon. It’s a place you can hear bands on the brink with names like Apanhador Só[...]

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.” Robert A. Heinlein

By all accounts, and his parents' admission, 10-year-old Cash Owens probably shouldn't be alive today. "Twelve hours after he was born, he started vomiting neon[...]

When we think about recovering from a serious illness, we tend to think about things like rest and recuperation, medication regimens, dietary changes, support from[...]