Category: 1000 Words

KEX Deck

It’s just a wooden platform facing the alley behind a youth hostel. But the deck at KEX in Reykjavik holds so many wonderful memories for...

The Life Aquatic

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou lives on a short list of stories I turn to when I need to feel like everything is going...

Here’s Lookin at You

I’ve never quite gotten used to keeping prey animals as pets. I keep forgetting that when they are “looking straight at you” they probably aren’t...

The Scenery Never Changes

I grew up in a family that was quite fond of archaic and colloquial proverbs like If you’re not the lead dog, the scenery never...

How I Roll

One year, I took my mom and my daughters to Victoria for a girls’ weekend getaway. We ended up buying so many books they filled...