So those seven of you who read this blog with any regularity might remember that my son Emmett stopped playing basketball last year. He just sorta got fed up with the ultra-competitiveness, with the intensity, with the coaches thinking they’re Bobby Knight. So he wrapped his career on the hardwood
So there’s this thing called the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. It’s an annual award, presented to what is deemed the year’s finest nonfiction book about sports. In the business it’s considered something of a big deal. A legit honor. A resume topper. A … Football for a Buck
So tonight I took my 12-year-old son to Game Stop so he could buy Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the game he’s been talking about and talking about and talking about. He talks about the characters. He talks about the action. He talks about the creators. He talks about the graphics.
This might sound weird, but I know all the words to Left Eye’s rap in the TLC hit, “Waterfalls.” It’s actually one of my favorite musical interludes of all time, and my kids are used to (and eternally annoyed by) me randomly saying, “I seen a rainbow yesterday …” That
Two years ago this Aliso Viejo, Cal.-based attorney underwent a nine-hour surgery to have a brain tumor removed. So how did she respond? By seeking out the good in humanity, then running for city council. And winning.
Donald Trump has ruined many things. He has ruined our reputation as a place where people can seek freedom. He has ruined the separation of powers. He has ruined dignity in the White House. He has ruined compassion. On. And on. And on. As a guy who loved history and
So the new episode of Two Writers Slinging Yang stars Steve Buckley, the longtime Boston journalist who now writes for The Athletic. And much of the program deals with my all-time favorite piece of non-fiction—OF MONUMENTS AND MEN. As promised, I’m posting it here … Enjoy.
When I was a kid, my mother and I used to take these long, winding walks along the back roads of Mahopac, N.Y. We’d talk and talk and talk. Mom was uniquely open with me, and our conversations veered from probation (she was a probation officer) to dogs (she hated
My favorite story of the week involved an enraged mother who, five years ago, named her daughter “Abcde,” and is now upset that people make light of it. In case you missed this: A Texas woman named Traci Redford told ABC News that a Southwest Airlines employee mocked her kid,
Gifted in the art of sarcastically rolling her eyes as a teenager, this Canadian rose to fame as the older sibling in “Harry and the Hendersons.” But when Hollywood grew old, she discovered her calling: Helping authors find their voices.