In an empty house, a young boy – no older than fourteen – moved carefully around his room. His mom finally left him alone for the weekend. He stripped the sheets and blankets from his bed and replaced...

The lights are low, mostly coming from the bar in the back of the room. There are various levels of dress present: a man in jeans and a t-shirt, an older woman in a full-length-dress, an excited twenty-something...

Not even halfway up the chairlift my face was already red from the beaming morning rays. Dirt was beginning to trace the ditches between the moguls under the lift. It snowed only two days before, now...

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Music is a language, a language that connects us all. Songs bring us closer together, inspire us and open the doors of self-reflection, allowing anybody to connect to a wide range of emotions and feel...

Seconds turn into minutes, minutes into hours, hours to days. All time put toward shedding a few seconds off the clock. Among the absurd heat and humidity of late July or the crushing winters in Sioux...

Born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, Marty Two Bulls Jr. was destined to become an artist. “I come from a big family of artists,” Two Bulls Jr. said. “From my grandparents’ generation...

Since Earth’s beginning, fire has been one of the greatest forces of nature. Like an artist’s mangled gum eraser, fire removes what is old and leaves a clean canvas for new life to leave its mark....

In the thick silence of a Michigan forest on a sweltering September afternoon, a crack pierces the air, echoing off the trees, forcing a flock of birds to flee. Ezra Aderhold, a professional disc golfer...

“Blood, sweat and tears,” is a phrase that has been immortalized throughout time, made famous by figures such as Winston Churchill, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Johne Donne. It is a phrase used to describe...