Cosmic Sentencing “The Vancouver Times has reported the arrest of World Health Organisation director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus by Interpol as he was boarding a plane for Africa. The newspaper says he was charged with ...
Hat's Off My great grandfather spent his entire life on vacation, converting the fruits of the labors of my industrialist ancestors into adventures and trinkets. He loved cars and cameras and the latest technol...
The Road to Riches In the coal-veined ankles of Appalachia, where the wrinkled hollows drop into dammed lakes filled with the ghosts of flooded villages, we drove along a road that curves 318 times in 11 miles. We fille...
Fall Down. Take a Bow. A ski lift is a pretty simple system. There is a loading line, where the skiers wait for the oncoming chair. There is an on-deck line, where the next row of people wait until that chair has passed; if...
What Devil Has A Hold of Me? “Something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” For most of 2020, that lyric kept playing in my head. It was not the first time I hadn’t known. When I was in third gra...
The Heart of the Matter For nine days, 12 children and their soccer coach were trapped in a cave in Thailand without knowing whether anyone would find them. It took eight more days while the divers figured out how to get the...