Category: 1000 Words

Satan’s Bath Water

As a general rule, I think safety culture has gone too far. Or at least I did before the pandemic, when my kids were little...

Kinky Machine

Well that’s a clickbaity title if I ever wrote one. This classic car parked in a community garden on the roof of a parking garage...

Neighborly Halloween

Halloween was my favorite holiday growing up. But now that I have my own kids, it feels like the pronunciation I hate has become accurate...

Clearly False

I am not a particularly superstitious person. And even very superstitious people usually think of fortune cookies as just-for-fun. But thanks to a very accurate...

Off Venue

The first time I went to the Eistnaflug music festival in East Iceland, the main stage was was in the town’s only music venue, and...