Tag: Train

I’ve been trying to get to this point for a while to be honest. My best streak this year was in January when I decided to have two weeks off for New Year. Since then I had been stopping and starting every few days. It was frustrating and I felt like a failure. One of the reasons I’ve ...

My alarm clock was pink. She came from Sears with the pack of undershirts they gave me for Christmas in the 3rd grade. I don’t know what happened to that alarm clock, but I can tell you that I held onto, and continued to stitch up the holes in those undershirts until the relationship ended whe...

Honestly, a little reflection wouldn’t hurt. Not getting defensive and acting like a child would be nice. Not lashing out at the person trying to communicate something to you would be a good start. How about not starting a YouTube channel on how bad white people have it? I know these guys m...

I’ve loved trains since I was a little kid. I’ve always had a train set(the title pic is from my current layout), I hung out by the tracks a rail served industry in my hometown, getting cab and caboose rides. As a ten year old, I wrote to the Santa Fe Railway and got a tour of their down...

Fairy tales have attracted a range of criticism since their first publication in the nineteenth century, with varying feminists, Freudians and Post-colonialists interpreting the works of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes identified that we often ‘refer to myths and fairy tales as lies [but] these...

The best thing about the model train set was the wonderful scent of electricity. The miniature carriages and locomotives were beautiful, fascinating, and mesmerizing in their attention to detail, such that I would spend hours admiring them. But it was the red transformer box with rounded corners ...

At 8:07 a.m. on Wednesday morning, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avraham Levy was returning home from staffing an all-night municipal election vote-count in the city of Tel Mond. He was driving one of the organization’s ambulances back from the event when he received an emergency alert from di...

Growing up in Sydney, I used to catch the bus every day to school and continued throughout university. I should have gotten used to this by now… Now I shamefully catch myself driving my car to destinations rather than catching a bus. Recently, I visited some family in the German-speakin...