Is it time to replace the expression “the mentally ill”? Some argue the term unfairly stigmatizes a broad range of people. Also, the winter sport of… skitching, which involves snowy roads, leather shoes — and car bumpers...
Skitching means hitching a ride by grabbing a moving car’s bumper and sliding along an icy street, or, later, doing something similar on roller skates or a skateboard. Spence from Heartland, Wisconsin, remembers Chicago kids using the word in the...