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Roger Heil doesn’t remember this past Valentine’s Day. Now before you roll your eyes, you should know that Heil, who works at Mayo and who[...]
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It started with a Relay for Life, expanded to other good deeds, and progressed to colleagues throwing chunks of wood about on the lawn in[...]
Keith Torgerud and the rest of his team were about five miles into a recent Tough Mudder race challenge in Richmond, Illinois, when they heard[...]
An attic speaks to the imagination. It brings to mind hidden treasures covered in dust (or maybe sheets). History waiting to be shared. A storage[...]
“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.” Carl[...]