So now I have some thinking to do. As I mentioned before, the day after the cortisone shot I was pain free. In the week after I have been in more pain than I was before the shot. They say […]
Category: Column
Column
Amateur prepares for Men’s Physique show, alone
By Kyle Finneron As I write this I am looking at my “finalist” trophy from the Organization of Competition Bodies (OCB) Men’s Physique show I competed in earlier this month. Since my last column I have consumed a nauseating amount […]
Column
Monthly market insights
By Kevin Theissen The U.S Market The bull market celebrated its eighth anniversary in March, but stock prices were mixed for the month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.7 percent, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index ended essentially flat. […]
Column, Generation Y
Ski movies: “Downhill Racer” (1969)
By Brett Yates Editor’s note: The following is the first in a short series of reviews of mostly older films whose narratives prominently feature skiing and ski resorts. The opening shot of “Downhill Racer,” the 1969 Alpine drama starring Robert […]
Column, The Movie Diary
Information Overload
By Dom Cioffi Throughout my school days (elementary through college), I rarely stepped foot into a library. Sure, I wandered in whenever I had a book report due or needed to research something, but other than that, I avoided the […]
Column, The Outside Story
Woodcock habitat: a combo of open and hidden spaces
By Elise Tillinghast Every year around this time, my husband, kids and I haul out the tent blind from our garage and set it up in the field in front of our house. We toss in a few folding chairs, […]
Column
The key to the kingdom: psychometrics
I suspected Trump’s surprise electoral victory was Russia’s doing, until I discovered an important puzzle piece I knew nothing about. Now I believe the meddler extraordinaire was more complicated, sinister, and insidious than Kremlin hacking alone. Have you ever heard […]
Altitude Sickness, Column
Extreme lengths to avoiding “fusing it”
When I was a kid, I never woke up in the morning and said, “When I grow up, I want to have a needle in my spine.” Of course I also never said, “When I grow up, I want to […]
Column, Generation Y
Paul Ryan is a loser (To the tune of Beck’s “Loser”)
By Brett Yates [Verse 1] In the time of bloated budgets, I got real wonky, Made PowerPoints in vain, became a fiscal junkie. With the widow’s peak, the airbrushed headshots, Wisconsinites voted for the beefcake hotshot. Kill the entitlements and […]
Column, The Movie Diary
I fought the law, and the law won
By Dom Cioffi Nearly 35 years ago, on the day after I received my driver’s license, I drove to my girlfriend’s house and parked out front. After hanging around inside for a couple hours, I returned to my car and […]