Unmentionables on Display Members Public

I love to travel and adventure. There is nothing more exciting for me than to go to a new destination. I got a chance to go to Nicaragua for a Spring Break trip as part of my journalism studies in grad school. Every trip brings something unexpected and this one

Niccole Kunshek
Niccole Kunshek

Up, Up And Uh...Wait Members Public

"Do you want to take a hot air balloon ride?" a friend asked me. Various news stories of hot air balloons hitting power lines and people dying flashed before my eyes. "Sure," I said. "Sounds exhilarating." Turns out it's not as easy

Niccole Kunshek
Niccole Kunshek

The Red Baron Flys In Members Public

There was a time not many of us remember. It was before cell phones when communication was not instant and constant. Don't misunderstand me. Cell phones can be fantastic. I'm no longer scrambling for change to use a pay phone that I have to try to

Niccole Kunshek
Niccole Kunshek

You still laugh at a dark comedy Members Public

You know it's bad news when you get a call from someone you never hear from at a strange time. For me, I was driving to work. I could see on the caller ID it was Pat, a cousin. (Names and relationships have been changed to protect the

Niccole Kunshek
Niccole Kunshek

The Restaurant Randomizer Members Public

It sounds like a fun night out with a good meal is in our evening’s future, but then comes the important and devastating question: where do you want to go? I thought this time I’d be a clever monkey with some technological magic and make a program to

Mark Nair
Mark Nair
Swift

Outline of Life Members Public

1. Birth You arrive in this world. 2. What the cuss is going on here? I lived in Japan for two years. Lots of crazy stuff happens when you're a foreigner. I didn't have a car when I first moved to Japan. I was living in

Niccole Kunshek
Niccole Kunshek

Scammers Redux Members Public

One time, as was my hobby, I was on my hands and knees furiously scrubbing the carpet of cat barf. This was in the Old Days where phones were connected by a copper wire and each phone had a companion piece of tech called an “answering machine” (the most direct

Mark Nair
Mark Nair
Tech

Buried the Right Way Members Public

My Name is Mary London, and this incident happened when I graduated high school in 1965. A program was started in Amarillo, Texas, that was to help young people to get on-the-job training for file clerks, mail sorters, and answering the telephone. Some of us girls went to the program

Mary London
Mary London
Essays