It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.
To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.
Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it's a big drag. But it's also the only way to kick the habit.