Some anticlimactic news: This is my final blog post on this website for a while (maybe ever).
My first post was published the day I launched my redesigned site on Aug. 1, 2014. I said in that post that I didn’t anticipate blogging frequently.
At that time, I had recently finished grad school and was looking for full-time work. So the site was mostly a portfolio site and partly a way to show I was keeping busy. Read the whole post
2020 is coming to a close. You don’t need me to write a short summary explaining what 2020 has been like, you have already read enough of those. Welcome back to “My best work of [Insert Year Here]” an ongoing series in which I compile my favorite work from … most years.
Some years I’m a little more proud of the work I’ve done than others, which is a weird thing to write or say out loud because the hope is that each year is better than the last, but it doesn’t always work out that way. Read the whole post
I’m about a week late to the “Best of 2018” season, which is typically tired and played out by the time we reach Christmas. But on the final work days before Christmas, I was wrapping up my three-week honeymoon in New Zealand. So, yeah, you can probably tell 2018 was a great year for me.
But I also have a lot of work that I’m proud of from the past year. Read the whole post
I don’t compile a “Best of” list every December, but I felt compelled to for 2017. That’s probably a good sign for how I feel about the work I did this year. Some years I try to tackle a couple big projects, some years I take on a lot of little things. This year I tried to do a little of both. Read the whole post
Yesterday I unveiled my map. At least I finally put it online. In my apartment I have the real map, a giant one on a corkboard where I have pins in all the places I’ve been. As a geography nerd who has spent the last 20 years pretty obsessed with sports travel, it’s become one of my favorite possessions. I’ve wanted to move it online for a while now and I finally did yesterday. Read the whole post
At some point during the Olympics— the days very much blur together at this point— I was sitting at my desk yammering about judo or handball or whitewater slalom kayak racing or something. A coworker asked me if I was always into the Olympics this much, or if it was only because this year I was hosting a podcast. I told him that the podcast existed because I love the Olympics, and not the other way around. Read the whole post
To start with the lede: I’m launching a podcast. You probably already figured that out from the headline.
Technically I’ve been launching a podcast for the past few months, today is just the day I can finally switch things into past tense and say that I’ve launched a podcast. You can already listen to Episode 1 on my site, or search for it and subscribe in the iTunes store. Read the whole post
It’s list season. Actually I might have missed list season. I’ve spent the last couple weeks reading all sorts of posts sharing the best books, movies, articles, cat photos, etc. of 2014. So I hope I’m not too late, waiting until December 31.
If I am late, it’s because I was a little hesitant at first to do this. It seems like a bit of a narcissistic exercise to put together my best work of the year. Read the whole post
In case you missed it, I wrote my first story for Sports Illustrated Friday, about the symbolism of Jimmy Rollins being the first homegrown Phillies star to leave town.
One story wasn’t enough for me to get it all out of my system, so here’s a more personal take on what it’s been like to follow Rollins all these years.
Rollins’ first full season in the Major Leagues was in 2001. Read the whole post
I think deep down I always knew I’d get found out. I probably could have predicted exactly how it would go down too.
A couple months ago my brother and I went to a minor league baseball game in Las Vegas. It was a typical night:
We were half watching the game, half trading obscure baseball references and random movie quotes. Read the whole post