After a wonderful weekend visiting our grandparents in Aylmer, we set off for home. Back then, there were no cell phones, GPS, Doppler radar, or weather apps to guide us—just intuition and a paper map. About half an hour into the drive, snow began falling lightly, but within an hour, it had transformed into a…
Month: January 2025
Winter Ice Storm – 1957
Stranded at Grandma’s after an ice storm, my brother and I found a steep, glassy hill too tempting to resist. But when my slick vinyl coat turned me into an unstoppable human toboggan, the real adventure began.
The Moscow Metro
The Metro is one of the busiest subway networks in the world and on a normal weekday will carry more than 8 million passengers along 286.8 miles (461.5 km) of track, visiting 263 stations on route. When I lived in Moscow, I used to love running errands because it gave me an excuse to use the metro….