When and wear
Every year I wait with bated breath, well more like chapped lips and half-bitten fingernails, to be proven wrong. “This will be the year!” I…
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Top 10 bizarre celebrity couples
Dennis Rodman and Alicia Douvall Reportedly, Rodman was one of the loves of Douvall’s life but his reps deny they were ever even together. A…
Vanderhart & Poggemiller New English Dictionary
“Hipster,” like “douchebag,” has reached a state of overuse that renders it almost entirely meaningless. To some, a hipster is a 17-year old wearing skinny…
In a land far, far away
Since my last article, the heat now works, a cup is catching the hot water heater drippings, and I purchased some bedsheets. Things are looking…
Bruises, blood and welts
A screen-shot of an electronic waiver is displayed. It allows a viewer to state, with a click of a mouse, that he or she is…
So you want to climb?
I can honestly admit that some of the coolest people I know are climbers. Maybe they’re cool because they climb. Or maybe climbing makes them…
The age of things
Two hundred kilometers north of Winnipeg is Nopiming Provincial Park, a place full of backwater camping and hiking trails, and, as it happens, precambrian rocks…
Give Up Now
The only way to avoid the crushing moment-to-moment parade of utter hopelessness that is “life” is to give up now. Believe me, it is beautiful…
In a land far, far away
I am currently sitting in a tiny dorm room in Koper, Slovenia. The heat has turned itself off, I have no sheets on my bed,…
The actual food of love
Imagine a scene where a couple is seated at a table. They stare into each other’s eyes. All that tragic misunderstanding is behind them, and…