Up until not very long ago, I was always stuck having the same tired conversation with gym clerks and cellphone-company sales reps. That Armenian kid Arda, who folds towels at my ghetto, fogged-up 24-hour gym, or those tall guys in dark striped shirts and lots of hair gel, who peddle phones and daytime minutes in [...]
It could be the pretty little snow falling slow and quiet, bringing back the smell of wood smoke, one-piece long johns and musical-saw lessons by the sauna. That, or I’m finally getting old enough to revisit and embrace my childhood home’s bluegrassy vibes, rife with mandolin riffs and Appalachian harmonies. Whichever the case, I’m delighted. Switching [...]
I left Alaska a month ago, almost day for day. It was late October and Fairbanks was beginning its slow decent into deep-dark winter. The sun, which I’d seen pull effortless all-nighters in early August, was starting to get lazy, never showing much before 9:30 AM. It was getting cold, too, but not insane cold. [...]
UNMOVING DAY by Carolyne Weldon For the 42nd consecutive year, Alice Leblanc didn’t move out of her Verdun apartment yesterday. As the moving season peaked and thousands of families partook in the city’s annual festival of musical chairs, the 91 year-old Gaspé native cranked the air-conditioning and knitted a pair of slippers while watching her [...]