This fall, Mills Gallery launches the third edition of the WINN-WIN Emerging Artists Exhibition, an ambitious four-month professional artist development program that has become one of Central Florida's most significant investments in emerging creative talent.

Opening this season, WINN-WIN presents new work by Camila Gonzalez, Greyson Hertzendorf, Rese Lazo, Angelina Palmisano, and Bethany Skena, five artists selected not simply because of where they are today, but because of where they are headed.

A tiny bakery at the northern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula makes the best doughnuts in the state. That is our opinion, and after one bite of a thimbleberry-frosted doughnut from Jamsen’s Bakery, it will be yours too. Still don’t believe us? Gordon Ramsay stopped by for a taste himself in September 2020. He said, “This is wonderful.”

International travel has largely returned to normal for Australians in 2026, but questions remain about whether a COVID-19 vaccine is still required or recommended before heading overseas. The short answer is: it depends on where you are going and your personal health circumstances. This guide breaks down what you need to know before you pack your bags.

Parent-teacher conferences move fast. You get a folding chair, a glance at their school projects, and about twelve minutes before the next family is up next. In this limited time, most of us ask what we can measure: How’s her reading? Is he keeping up in math? Anything I should know about? These are all good questions, but they don’t address the part of school I care about most, which is whether my kid is learning to live well among people whose lives look nothing like hers.

Here’s the sentence I’d tape to every family’s fridge and every teacher’s desk: fifteen minutes a day, every day, outlasts a themed activity or month every single time. Why? It's the power of compounding.

A “Countries of the World” week in April is a lovely photo op. What actually shapes a kid’s intercultural being is the small, repeated practice, the map that stays up, the question that comes back around, the habit that becomes a reflex.

 
One of the sweetest signs of summer is appearing across Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. Thimbleberry plants are flowering now, covering roadsides, forest edges, and trails with delicate white blossoms.

Teachers can make classroom time fun. They can turn a story into an interesting debate. Or a worksheet into a game. Still, there’s only so much energy a classroom can hold. Four walls become small when kids’ curiosity gets big.

Field trips give that energy somewhere to go. They give students a break from the classroom. At the same time, they keep learning alive. Kids get to see and touch real spaces. It wakes something up in them. A kind of excitement to learn that doesn’t always show up during desk work.