Sitting in a hole-in-the-wall pizza place, I was mid-interview with a singer I’d heard in the East Village and wanted to know more about. He had an interesting look that photographed well but his bristly baritone is what really caught my attention. I’d learned about his early introduction into music and what fueled his love …
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When I was mouthy as a kid, my father would say to me, “Better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” It’s a proverb that stems back further than my father of course. Further even than Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain, both of whom are credited …
I’m watching an episode of “My 600 Pound Life” at the moment. It’s one of my guilty pleasure shows and sometimes it makes me feel guilty enough to put down the dessert or the bag of chips. Beyond its “this is what real struggle looks like” documentary qualities, I feel like this is one of …
I recently shared a meal with a room full of twentysomething girls, each one openly jockeying to reach their potential inner Lena Dunham. I didn’t know that’s who I was going to spend the evening with, they just happened to be the friends of a friend with whom I found myself seated. I was surrounded …
“My vision for Liberty is to position it as a pre-eminent Christian athletic program in America and garner the same type of appeal among the Christian community as Notre Dame achieves among the Catholic community and BYU garners from the Mormons.” Ian McCaw, the former athletic director of my alma mater, Baylor University, has accepted …
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