9. “The wild November comes at last beneath a veil of rain. The night wind blows its folds aside, her face is full of pain. The latest of her race, she takes the Autumn’s vacant throne. She has but one short moon to live and she must live alone.”–R.H. Stoddard 10. “Tha...
39. The Great Wind Blows Best For: Team Bonding Participants quickly find new seats based on a statement while one person stands in the middle. Instructions One person stands in the middle and makes a statement starting with “The great win...
The Worst Netflix Movies of 2021 These Netflix-produced movies completely missed the mark. 10. Outside the Wire Netflix 10. Outside the Wire If you want to see Anthony Mackie really shine in a military-themed drama, watch The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney+. If you want to ...
overpass. I had a floor to ceiling view of the mountains in Glendale that day, swathed in mist, lush and green, as a late winter rainstorm slaked the parched earth. I turned my desk chair towards it, and just stared. I felt contentment for the first time in many months. I felt I ...
We can actually physically perceive both of these effects. During a clear summer day, a cloud comes over and instantly cools us down. And during a clear winter night, a cloud comes over and we immediately feel warmer. These two changes, cooling and warming from different phenomena, are lumpe...
On the slopes of Telegraph Hill dwelt the Mexicans and Spanish, in low houses, which they had transformed by balconies into a semblance of Spain. Above, and streaming over the hill, were the Italians. The tenement quarter of San Francisco shone by contrast with those of Chicago and New York...
However, I'm still seriously suffering from Seattle Sidewall Syndrome (SSS), a condition which causes the premature deterioration of wheels ridden by messengers and hardcore commuters in wet grimy winter conditions as rim brakes, especially high-power cantilevers, wear through the braking surface of...
it was housed in a defunct red train station that rattled every time a passing commuter train rushed by on its way to Manhattan. In winter, icy gusts came lunging through the walls. There was a garage with two ambulances, and off it, a cramped radio room. Inside the station was an op...
‘Pheasants, partridge, rabbits, hares, foxes, deer – pretty much anything that moves really.’ Graham is also bracingly unromantic about life up here in the winter months (‘bloody awful, covered in fog for days on end, can’t stand it’). Next morning, after serving us a superb ...
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