In the rolling countryside of sixteenth-century Ayrshire, Scotland, lived a woman named Bessie Dunlop. She wasn't wealthy or powerful, and there was nothing about her position in society that should have ensured anyone remembered her nearly 450 years later. She was the wife of a farmer or herdsman, living an ordinary rural life in a... Continue Reading →
The Bench at the End of Maple Street
Every morning at 8:30, Margaret Ellis sat on the green bench at the end of Maple Street. Nobody really knew why. She didn't feed pigeons, she didn't read a newspaper, and she didn't walk a dog. She simply arrived carrying a travel mug of coffee, sat down, and watched the neighborhood wake up. At seventy-six,... Continue Reading →
The Day Brenda Decided to Become a Morning Person
At 10:47pm on a Sunday night, Brenda made a terrible decision. She decided to get her life together. This was not the first time Brenda had made this decision. Historically, she got her life together approximately six times a year, usually after watching an inspirational video made by someone whose kitchen counters were suspiciously empty.... Continue Reading →
The Flowers on the Fence
Every morning at exactly 7:15, seventy-three-year-old Arthur Bennett walked to the end of his driveway to collect his newspaper and every morning at exactly 7:16, eight-year-old Lucy waved at him from across the street while waiting for her school bus. They had never actually spoken. Arthur would lift his newspaper. Lucy would wave both arms... Continue Reading →
The Great Salad Incident
I decided one day that I was going to be healthy. Not because I suddenly developed an overwhelming love for vegetables, but because my jeans had started holding meetings behind my back. Naturally, I ordered a salad. Now, if you've ever ordered a restaurant salad, you know they're basically vegetables covered in enough cheese, bacon,... Continue Reading →
This Week In Chaos: Heat, Rain & “Helpful” Neighbors
Well...another week is in the poop bags! It wasn't exactly exciting, but somehow it still managed to be exhausting. You know those weeks where absolutely nothing major happens, yet by Friday you're ready to crawl into bed and pretend adulthood is optional? Yeah...one of those. Work was actually pretty quiet this week. A good chunk... Continue Reading →
This Week in Chaos: Dogs, Weather, Dog Puke & a New Haircut
Another week has come and gone, and somehow we survived it. Honestly, I feel like that deserves recognition. There were dogs. There was ridiculous weather. There was a new haircut. There was a long weekend approaching. And, because apparently the universe decided this week's story needed a little extra something... There was an extreme amount... Continue Reading →
The Teaching Rocks: Unveiling Anishinaabe Culture
Located within Petroglyphs Provincial Park in Woodview, Ontario, hold Canada’s largest known concentration of Indigenous rock carvings. Etched into a broad shelf of white crystalline limestone bedrock, the site features more than 900 ancient carvings depicting animals, humans, and sacred spiritual symbols. Known to the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people as Kinomagewapkong, or "The Teaching Rocks," this... Continue Reading →
The Larder Lake Stonehenge
The Larder Lake Stonehenge (historically referred to as the Pearl Beach Mystery Rocks) is a fascinating megalithic arrangement of 18 massive, rounded boulders situated on the northeastern shore of Larder Lake a rural community located in Timiskaming District near the Big Narrows in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Geologists generally classify the stones as glacial erratic's -... Continue Reading →
The Legend of the Yenaldooshi
In Navajo mythology, skin-walkers, also known as Yenaldooshi, are witches who wear coyote skins and travel at night. They appear naked, wearing only masks and jewelry, and tend to live in caves, storing recognizable human heads on shelves. Yenaldooshi gain power by killing a close relative, sometimes even a sibling. They are known to desecrate... Continue Reading →