Wellness

Snooze Mattress Company

Discover Your Perfect Mattress Article by David Scheller Online shopping is mostly safe. Sure – you might make a mistake here and there, such as ordering a sweater to give to your wife only to discover that it is made for a toy dog. Fortunately, most poorly advised online purchases aren’t life-altering setbacks. Just save the weird stuff you don’t want for a white elephant gift exchange. That’s what weird stuff you don’t want is for. But do you know what is a life-altering setback? Buying...

Wellness

Institute for Integrative Therapies

Transforming Society Through the Innovation of Psychedelic Therapies to Cultivate Wholeness, Healing and Meaning Article by David Scheller | Photography by Emily John Ketamine . It is an anesthetic with minor hallucinogenic effects; approved by the FDA in 1970, and now one of the most commonly used medicines worldwide.  When it is administered by a doctor – and when its recipient also receives therapy – ketamine can elicit numerous mental health benefits. It might already have become...

Education

Eden Prairie Montessori

The Exercises of Practical Life Article by David Scheller John Locke said a child's mind is like a blank slate; or, to put it more contemporarily, an iPad without software. He believed experience alone determines who a child will be.  Perhaps some dispositions are bred in the bone. Who can say? But Locke sure was right about one thing. Children do learn from experience. In fact, it’s the only thing they’ll ever learn from.  Decorum. Propriety. Savoir faire. You have these qualities in...

Food + Beverage

Baker's Ribs

In Barbecue Miles, Dallas and Eden Prairie Are Neighbors Article by Bill Scheller | Photography by Pete Rose Al Killion’s sign promising “Real Texas BBQ” isn’t a boast, it’s a fact. “Baker’s is a longtime star in the barbecue scene here in Dallas,” says a buddy of mine who hails from Big D. My friend says he’s surprised to hear Baker’s has a foothold in Minnesota – but Eden Prairie BBQ connoisseurs aren’t surprised at all. They know that Baker’s in Dallas is where Al got his start in the...