Canadian athlete Olga Kotelko didn’t start training until the age of 77, and at 91 she is still winning medals and breaking world records.
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Canadian athlete Olga Kotelko didn’t start training until the age of 77, and at 91 she is still winning medals and breaking world records.
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Can I get a ‘do over’ on this life thing?
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The hand-rickshaw may soon disappear from the streets of Calcutta but not everyone will be sad to see them go, as Judy Swallow reports…
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Everything seems rich and strange, transmogrified, holy.
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∆ Appeared in Wild Poets: Magazine No. 5 “Arson” (Seattle)
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