Samuel Wadhams's posts

We spend huge chunks of our lives trying to acquire both love and money. At some point, though, we’d all kind of…

Ah, hell, it’s winter again—the time of year where we partake in the seasonal ritual of hunkering down, getting fat,…

In 1924, when the New York Times asked George Mallory why he was going to make his third attempt to scale Everest,…

The problem is, most things are Good in inverse proportion to the degree to which they’re Fun. Broccoli is Good;…

Guns make for poor conversation. Generally speaking, there are two entrenched ideological camps—aficionados and…

The Kentucky Derby, a/k/a “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports,” is an event rich with tradition. It’s an opportune…

Killing a half-day fishing is one of life’s greatest joys. Measuring yourself against Earth’s dumbest creatures and…

Lifting weights should be simple. You go to a place with a bunch of metal and pick it up and put it down until you…

You may have heard about a big East Coast blizzard hitting soon. Big storms are like the crimes on Law & Order:…

Winter is full of creaking trees and crackling fires, which are reasonable enough excuses to buy a chainsaw.…