The Palmville Globe Volume 2 Number 16 Man Tames Cowlick Joe McDonnell, and a resident of Palmville Twp, Minnesota, recently discovered a new grooming trick. "I've had an unruly cowlick since youth," McDonnell tells the press. "My solution was to put a wet towel on my head for ten minutes before going out in public. My wife said this gave me helmet hair. She said I should use conditioner which I tried off and on over the years without results. Just the other day I read the label and it said leave the conditioner in my hair 'as desired' before rinsing. I tried not rinsing the cowlick area at all. Next morning my wife said, 'What did you do to your hair? It looks perfect!' I told her I had read the instructions." McDonnell reports he now leaves a spray bottle of water and a bottle of conditioner in the bathroom closest to the front door for use before going out. "I just have to remember to look in the mirror first," he says. Man Arrives...
Hello and welcome to a sunny Saturday here at the Wannaskan Almanac. Today is May 16th. I hope you remembered to pay your property taxes. I almost didn't. A Love Letter to My Friend Dear Friend, Tomorrow we go to the forest to spread your ashes and I know it will be then - in that moment - that my body, heart, and soul will align with the impermeable fact that you are gone. I haven't cried since your death. And for this, I'm sorry. Swept up in the chaos of busy swirling in my own family hive, your passing simply hasn't felt real. I've pushed it down the to-do list of items to be done, processed - felt. But today. Today, I cry for you. Today, I sit and breathe into the space that is your absence. And I feel so, so sad. I took a walk this morning, passing through trees and around a lake. The air smells of promise - that sweetness only nature can produce. The early morning is light and bright. A bit cool. I think about you and how to best honor you. Today. Tomorrow. T...