We were driving home from the fall state fair, an annual family tradition. I was about 2 months away from welcoming our little girl, but that wasn’t even a little bit on my mind. I just wanted to stay awake....
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We were driving home from the fall state fair, an annual family tradition. I was about 2 months away from welcoming our little girl, but that wasn’t even a little bit on my mind. I just wanted to stay awake....
Continue Reading2021 was the biggest year of my life. Got married. Bought a house. Put a whole bunch of injections into my body. Was exposed to COVID. Was exposed to COVID. Was exposed to COVID. Still haven’t gotten me yet though,...
Continue ReadingWell, that year’s over. *pause for deep sigh, a gulp of wine and/or a primal scream* With the end of the year comes the arbitrary point in time when I decide to look back at the past 12 months and...
Continue ReadingOkay here we go. I’m basically down to one blog post a year at this point, and this is THE ONE. I’ve explained the rules to the list in the past, so here are the key ones: no artist...
Continue ReadingEvery year I make a Spotify playlist of new songs released that I enjoyed. It’s usually something playful. “Tune Thousand 15.” “2014: From Jamuary On.” Ya know, dumb crap like that, which is funny to no one, and – I’m...
Continue ReadingI haven’t hit a shot all game. I need to make my mark. The guy I’m covering has me posted up around the middle of the free throw lane, a place where you normally can’t camp out except there really...
Continue Reading2017 is now behind us. Good riddance, many would say. Because we’ve decided we’re just going to hate entire years now. Thank God 2016 is over, every likable famous person died. Thank God 2017 is over, we found out there’s...
Continue ReadingI do an annual Top Songs of the Year post here. It. Is. Tedious. But it’s worth it for me. I like sharing what I’m listening to, and I’ve been trying to do so more frequently with the temporarily-paused “Intro...
Continue ReadingLast night, the Celtics traded Isaiah Thomas, Jae Crowder, Ante Zizic(!), and the 2018 Brooklyn Nets first round pick for Kyrie Irving. I have a lot of thoughts that I’m having a tough time organizing, but as a Celtics fan...
Continue ReadingEveryone has an instrument that escalates music for them. Upbeat people have the horns. Ragers have the guitar. George W. Bush has the drums. Hopeless romantics have the violin. Whatever it is that triggers that escalation is different from person-to-person....
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