About 4.5 years ago, I wrote an article decrying the summer camp experience known as "Color War", in which friends are broken apart into artificially-created teams for the sole purpose of improving sportsmanship (sportspersonship, I [...]
I'm willing to bet that each and every one of us has something expensive that they save up for and purchase, and are proud of or happy about. I get that; I really do. But [...]
The human body is a fragile thing, and maintaining it is nigh-impossible. Everything we do gives us a disease or prevents one; every type of exercise is the wrong type of exercise, except that it's [...]
I lost a lot of weight between November 2012 and November 2013. Then I gained almost all of it back. Last month I decided I'd had enough, and I was going to start a very [...]
Most of us are aware, at least in the broadest sense of the word, of what a vampire has that a human doesn't: greater strength, greater speed, the inability to subsist on food (needing blood [...]
Between the time when the patrons drank their wine and the rise of the soufflé, there was an age undreamed-of. And unto this, Conan, destined to bear the large white puffy toque upon a troubled [...]
I love to cook. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. You see, in my family, it is the men who you will find making dinner or preparing snacks. During family reunions, we [...]
