Men come face-to-face with the mortality of their youth when nature tells them the time has come to start wearing a great hat that fits their personality instead of a comb-over that doesn’t.
The Red Green Fan Club
If you’ve never heard of Red Green you may be missing one of the biggest laughs to come out of the wilds of Canada since…well…forever. This duct-tape packing man’s man is known for his down-to-the-dirt philosophy (“Keep your stick on the ice!”), his red and green suspenders and his ability to have grown men and women doubled over with laughter. Our writer Dan L. Hays tells about the time he joined the Red Green Fan Club and caught up with Red himself.
NaNoWriMo: Pass the Prom Dress, ‘Cause Mama’s Got a Novel to Write
During National Novel Writing Month, our writer decides that writers really are so weird they need their own reality show. Take John Cheever, for example, who could only write in the nude. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in literary land.
Girl Meets Canada: The End
Our traveler reaches the end of her amazing, quirky journey across the huge country that is Canada and looks back on what she has and hasn’t learned over the past four months. The truth is, she’s gone from West Coast to East Coast and she’s just plain run out of road. We will miss Sarah’s posts from towns we never knew the names of before, but hopefully she’ll be back with many more Sarahisms. Here’s her last post from the road.
You Aren’t Always What You Eat, Right?
An inadvertent misplacement of food turns a normally innocuous snack into a disgusting affair.
Girl Meets Canada: My St. John’s Meltdown
What do you do once you reach the final destination of your journey and realize you have no idea what to do with yourself now?
And Here’s To You, Mrs. Rav4
When a car dies, it’s not like we should mourn, right? As Ali discovers, cars acquire personalities. We grow to like (or love them) and often they are there for the most important moments of our lives.
Bugs are Okay By Me
When a Canadian moves to a tropical Caribbean island, she finds lots to love. And then there are the bugs. Little bugs. Big bugs. Stinging bugs. Biting bugs. For Genny Ross-Barons, it’s all just part of life in paradise.
Lending a Hand
When a man loses four fingers during a community tug-of-war in Bear River, Nova Scotia, reactions in the news media bring out the funny, the concerned and the tasteless.
Girl Meets Canada: The Perils of Doing Laundry
Our traveler’s innocent attempt to do laundry leads to near disaster and leads to a great deal of panic in the laundromat and whinging over the phone lines to the folks at home.
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