As a working parent, I'm grappling with the new reality I share with other parents during COVID-19: how to survive additional workloads.

As part of our effort to keep our creativity flowing, and in honor of National Haiku Day, the Lilja team completed a staff haiku exercise

If you’ve ever worked in an office, you probably don’t need a study to tell you that employees who have fun at work are happier, more productive and do bette...

As the holidays get closer, we are looking forward to spending time with family and friends — and having a little extra time to curl up with a good book! The...

“Enough is as good as a feast.” – Proverb Before we begin our weekly staff meetings, we each share something we are grateful for from the past week: a visit w...

Here in Minnesota, we strongly associate autumn with apples. When we saw that Mpls.St.Paul Magazine posted a ranking of apples developed by the University of...

With the days shorter and colder, what better way to practice “hygge” than to cozy up with a good book?  To mark the season, we’re delighte

“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” – Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle It will come as no surprise that we are a team of ...

Mary’s brothers Dan and David Carlsen; late father, Ted Carlsen; and cousin Peter Carlsen prepare to ski on a snowy Thanksgiving morning, circa 1975. I come ...

Just when you thought you had the world of technology and social media figured out, something like Pokémon Go comes along and leaves you wondering what might...