Shaking the Cage
I laid belly down on the table and rested my head on my arms folded out in front of me. My gym shorts were …
Cry Quits or Keep On
I spent the last two hours standing in the door frame of my apartment, watching my neighbor gain experience points as she tried to …
Practice Makes Potential
I later went on to win championships by making foul shots. I scored my 1,000th point in high school on a foul shot. I …
“The Lion Looked Us in the Face, and We Looked Back.”
I never cared enough to have a favorite basketball player growing up. I could never understand why people bought their jerseys. The idea of …
Settle Down
Sometimes you know exactly where you belong. It feels like Finland– an alcove everyone overlooks, oriel architecture no one ever notices, a depression just …
“I Want to Go for the Gusto.”
“I want to go for the gusto,” he said, leaning forward and forming a fist, recalling a conversation from 50 years in making. It …
2015: The Year of the Given
2015 will be the Year of the Given, where Life will become known and established as fact. I will stop using metaphors to describe …
A Place to Hang My Hat
I was getting the hang of hanging in the balance; of twisting in the whirlwind of Philadelphia, Finland and Baltimore. Of New Jersey, New …
In Writing. In Business. In Sports.
In writing, they call it the creative process. In business, they call it design thinking. In sports, they call it two-a-days, lifting, training and …
