Sept 27 – Wheelin’ to Wall (SD) this may wait until I’m in better driving distance, but notches another state to ride bikes in Sometime in September – Katahdin 360 3 days of fat bikepacking in Maine with my friend Ashley I won’t do all of the above, but I do want to share...
He gave me a long lecture “Didn’t your mother tell you that you should never put anything bigger than your elbow in your ear?” Of course she did. But who has ever put someone else’s elbow in their ear, let alone their own? I love the feel of clean dry ears though! Reply ...
I was chilling in my friend Nick and Julie’s basement apartment the other night when we started chatting about glue movies. After I spent five minutes spillingpotato chip crumbsall over my T-shirt while describing Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell’s on field chemistry, Nick started up a rant o...
To help honor World Down Syndrome Day, we asked Colette Cosky, a mother of two and a marketing executive in San Diego, to share her thoughts. After her son was born with Down syndrome, she founded the organization Down Right Awesome and helps raise awareness and support for Down syndrome ...
Jessie’s wig was made out of yarn. We had my mother in-law help us with the fitting and sewing. They sewed the part and braided it so it could be taken on and off if need be. Make sure to make it extra long because the thick braid makes it a lot shorter. It can always be ...
The Shadow Man is, as your mother would say, pa bon ki nan kò l. He ain’t no good. Epitou, as if to confirm this, you hear the Shadow Man say, “Ah, ti chouchou, I thought you’d never come home from school.” And he says this in your father’s voice. You are a smart...
I’m sad that I didn’t discover him sooner. Elsewhere, Richard Russo A memoir about Russo growing up in a small defunct town in upstate New York. This is a really the story of the relationship he had with his Mother. And as with all things Russo it was beautiful, poignant l and ...
When the story begins, Rachel is just seventeen years old, navigating a world ravaged by the catastrophic impact of the asteroid. Losing her only family during a food riot, Rachel seeks shelter with her boyfriend Derek and his mother, until that too becomes untenable. Moving in with Derek and...
That friends, is why addiction is such a stone cold motherfucker that takes so many lives. It’s the disease that always convinces us that we are shit, and there is no hope for us. The beauty of being clean and sober is that we see things more clearly. In a good recovery program,...
in tough mudder marathons. Which is sort of a sign of being a bit fucked in the head too, now that I think about it. My craziness makes me hide at home and hers makes her run through miles of swamps and barbed-wire carrying sandbags for a free t-shirt. And now I sort of have ...