The sun slowly began to rise over the horizon as the morning began to set in. There is always that initial terrible feeling one gets when you party the night away until mother nature bring back the light and ends the party. It was nearly 6:30 AM at this point and it began to get… Read more »
I went down to Orange, Massachusetts, it was my twenty-first birthday and my stepfather, Todd, told me he’d buy me a ticket to go skydiving. Can’t remember what I was wearing for shoes; but the dude behind the counter pointed at my feet and said, “Those shoes will fall off.” A friendly onlooker peered through… Read more »
A peaceful day in the woods when me and my sister decided to go for a walk. We live up north so there’s a lot more forests there so we had plenty of land to go exploring. The woods are right behind our house and most of the land is marked with very small trails… Read more »
The Leap It was probably five below. Exposed, I sat swinging from the chairlift of the local ski-mountain. I was fine for awhile, but after what felt like an hour I began to get worried. The lift had stopped, leaving me stranded above the ground in the middle of January. I was alone and… Read more »
The summer before college I decided I needed a little extra spending money to fill my pocket with. It all started with me and two of my friends in a cabin up in northern Vermont one night. We got talking and wanted to create something. Something that uses a new type of technology and could… Read more »
It was a Friday, and I needed a camera for a project due Tuesday. Little did I know what a roller coaster that simple task would be. The problems started when I tried to rent one. I went to IMRC first, only to find that the hours of the rental place had changed; instead of… Read more »
In 1991, I travelled to Nigeria to visit a friend who was studying at the Univeristy of Ibadan. During my time there I took a cab ride through Lagos, the largest city in a taxi that had no brakes, stayed in a hostel ECWA that the next night was bombed, got bitten by HIV infected mosquitoes,… Read more »
It was my first day of volleyball practice as a freshman in high school. My coach, a short, cheerful baled man told us to form a circle on the gym floor. We grew silent our, sneakers squeaking as we plopped down in a circle surrounding him. Coach proceeded to explain who he was and spoke… Read more »
It was one of the nicest days we’d seen so far on the trip. It was at least 90 degrees outside in downtown Rio and there were no clouds in the sky for as far as you could see. My parents and I were walking down the beach when it happened. From behind us we hear… Read more »
Traveling back and forth between Down East Maine and Bangor, I experience a lot of interesting things on the road. One evening while traveling from Bangor on route 9, as usual, I was going the speed limit and an out of state new Lexus car was on my tail end, flashing his lights, trying to… Read more »
So when I was around the age of 10 I used to enjoy playing fantasy in the forest. I would pick up a wooden stick and pretend I was an expert in sword fighting and would fight invisible enemies in the forest. One day a boy next door came over. His name was Jimmy. I… Read more »
I think I speak for most when I say falling in public is always a little embarrassing. Well I am a frequent faller. The day when I truly proved myself in the profession of falling was on my high school graduation day. Everyone’s worried about falling as they cross that stage, but it was me… Read more »
At the young and impressionable age of 17 I wanted to get drunk, I had never bought booze just skimmed my parents bottles. I had my money but no one to buy it, so I hit up my friend Matt and asked if he knew anyone who was 21. Like anyone who lives in nowhere… Read more »
