Under the city of love
A brief history of the Paris Catacombs By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff In the grand scheme of things, the catacombs beneath Paris are a relatively recent creation — younger, in fact, than most of its...
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Feverish
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff I don’t know about the rest of you people, but I could do with a breakage in our political fever at the midterms. It’s dire to imagine how little more...
Wind through a million needles
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Last week, the transition into fall was complete when I lit the first fire in our woodstove at home. After sitting idle for months, this hunk of inert metal came...
Knock on wood
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Do you knock on wood or cross your fingers when you want something good to happen — or something bad to not happen? Do you wear a rally cap when...
The schoolhouse rocks
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Much political hay has been made about the supposedly decrepit state of our nationwide public school system, with whole industries devoted to tearing down confidence in how kids are educated. ...
Following the path of rogue planets
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The average person on the street thinks about planets as large, spherical rocks orbiting their respective sun — but that isn’t always the case. There are also rogue planets (a.k.a....
Squirrely memories
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It’s always welcome when something reminds me of my grandma. It’ll be 14 years next month since I last spoke to her, before she passed away at the age of...
My bloody valentine
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff At this time of year, the world is abuzz with thoughts of love. Young and old couples turn their minds to chocolates and romantic dinners, and schoolchildren cut out paper...
Houseplant hospital
How to keep your plants alive over the winter By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Winter is peak mortality season for desk cactuses and bathroom ferns, which suddenly seem to brown and wilt when the weather...
It makes sense, unfortunately
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The first 12 months of Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president have been a bonanza for historians. Comparisons and analogies abound, and the “history repeats itself” cliche is doing...
