APRIL FOOLS: Wildnerness navigating to the extreme

Man embodies an inextricable dichotomy: the need to be one with nature while simultaneously needing to best it. To overcome that which we came from. To show nature that, sure, you might have made me, but I have since mounted you. Think of extreme mountain climbing,...

Liquid Diet: Changing of the guard

It wasn’t so long ago that I bore witness to — and maybe a little responsibility for — my underage cousins doing a bit of underage drinking. Zach was 17, Jake was 15 and I was 23, visiting them in Ontario. Living in B.C., I didn’t get to see them often, so when they...

Liquid Diet: A New Year’s stroll down Hemingway lane

The older I get, the less I care about New Year’s Eve (NYE). When I was younger, it was all about excess — especially when it came to the booze. It was like I couldn’t get it in me fast enough. Beer, liquor, whatever. Bottle, bottle, shot, smash. Pound it. Get...