On the road back from Thanksgiving, my dad and my sister’s boyfriend Alex were discussing the NBA lockout (which was just resolved yesterday.) I piped up with something along the lines of: “It’s not like I’m thrilled with people making millions of dollars playing sports. But I’m even less thrilled with owners making hundreds of [...]
There’s a thing I like to do, whenever someone says something is “like riding a bicycle”. “Oh,” I reply, faux-innocently. “You mean it’s like this cultural touchstone you’ve always been jealous of but never shared because you were too afraid of getting hit by a car?” Which of course is never what anyone means by [...]
I went home last weekend, and I was excited for a chance to snuggle my cat, cook with my mom, and engage in the endless after dinner conversations my family manages so frequently to have — you know, the kind where your butt gets sore from sitting still and you go for thirds and then [...]
