1. “Looking back on it now, it’s strange we weren’t on drugs,” I responded. Meredith, Jeff’s girlfriend, had been telling me about his upcoming trip to see a band known for playing instrumental “stoner music.” I commented that he’d always been into such songs and shared memories of countless nights freshman year of college when we’d all …

The World War II Memorial is one of the few monuments available for easy bathing. Not that you should do that. At least not the fully-immersed form usually conjured by use of the word “bath.” Though if you take baths by splashing your feet in a shallow, man-made water hole, then it will be a …