Frosh week. Summer blends with the first cool hints of the coming autumn, just as eager students excitedly turn their teenage selves towards pending adulthood. Nervous energy spills through residences as parents […]
“Could you get me that green pepper from the crisper and by the way my boss promoted the water cooler to management today, and then said I looked like a walking poo […]
Saying they were doing it for their grand-models, and their grand-models grand-models, in a historic vote automobiles around the world have today decided to eliminate all people from the roads by the […]
The continuous line of traffic stretches from Toronto to Thunder Bay. Horns sound impatiently and people open car doors to crane their necks, trying to see what is coming between them and […]
***Satire*** “We get it. Folks have to pack a lot into a day,” says Jim Carraway, head of public outreach for the Old Geezer’s Alliance For Change (OG’s for short), and the […]
Looking out over his backyard, the wooden planks of the deck pleasantly warming the soles of his bare feet, Geoffrey Rhodes draws in a deep breath of fresh, mid-July air, and then […]
“Look, I feel for the guy,” says eleven-year-old Jimmy DeShields, speaking about the former star player, affectionately known around the house as ‘Dad,’ who was quietly placed on waivers on Friday afternoon […]
***Satire*** “Leeaaan on me,” Bryan Adams belts into a hanging microphone in an emotional cover of the Bill Withers classic, the sweat pouring down his forehead mingling with the tears of compassion […]
“It is. A. Little. Confusing,” the medium-sized perch admitted between gasps and involuntary convulsions on the wooden dock, as the man who had just waited three hours to pull it out of […]
“It seemed like a good idea at the time,” says Marianne Webster, of Kamloops BC, as she cracks her first Kokanee of the day and looks back on fifteen years of having […]
The Out And Abouter 