Gear Review: Northernlite Elites
For the last couple years a running buddy of mine has been preaching about snowshoe racing. I've been tempted for awhile to take the leap and get myself a pair of racing snowshoes. Today they arrived from the factory in Wausau, Wisconsin. There was no resisting the immediate urge to strap them on...
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Book Review: The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile
Originally titled "The Globalization of Dissent", "The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile" is a series of four interviews with author Arundhati Roy. The interviews, guided conversations, really, are conducted by radio producer David Barsaman. Roy is perhaps best known as the author of the Booker...
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Book Review: Willie's Bar and Grill - Rob Hirst
When I was made aware that Rob Hirst, drummer/songwriter/singer for Midnight Oil, was going to write a book on the band's tour of North America immediately after 9-11, I thought, "Hope it's just not a lot of political observations." While the focus of the band's agit-prop rock was frontman Peter...
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Book Review: The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
If I said that "The Time Traveler's Wife" was a non-conventional love story with time travel, that description would not come close to accurately describing this novel. It is a non-conventional love story with time travel at its heart, but the novel is so much more than that, and it is also...
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Book review: Notre Dame vs The Klan - Todd Tucker
In the years after World War One, the Ku Klux Klan enjoyed a trememndous surge in membership, to the point where they became a political force. This was true nowhere more than Indiana; in 1924, a Klan member won the Republican nomination for, and subsequently elected to, the governor's chair. With...
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Book review: The Perfect Mile - Neal Bascomb
In the period after the 1952 Olympics, the track and field world was dominated by two questions: Can man break the four-minute mile (some at the time thought the effort would kill athletes)? If so, who would do it? Focus soon shifted on the latter and three college students: Roger Bannister (Great...
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Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
A film by Chris Columbus This is the second Harry Potter film and is the sequel to 2001 s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer s Stone . Like the first film, this one is also based on the book of the same title by J.K. Rowling. Also like the first film, this movie adaptation is faithful to the novel....
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Book Review: The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake is the debut novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. She has previously written the Pulitzer Prize winning short story collection The Interpreter of Maladies . This is the story of immigrants from India and is also the story of their son, Gogol Ganguli. Ashoke and Ashima are married in India in...
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tubes cut and positve pregnancy tests!!!!!
I had my tubes cut 2 years ago.. I was late on my period so I decided to take a home pregnancy test it came back positive! I was shocked and in disbelief so I took another one it came back positive I went to my doctors and they did another one it was positive!! He sent me immediately to get an...
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Odd pain in the right ear, I was having a cholesteatoma which was hidden
Hello everyone! I'm 15 year old male and I'm experiencing a cut-like pain for 3 days now in the right ear ONLY when I yell or pull the pinna. Actually, I've been having problems with the ears since I was born. I have had 4 operations made on them and the last one was the most...
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