Of course, the number for those who made it to the NHL – a step necessary in order to have a sports career that would confer “celebrity” status – was even smaller. Fifty of the 30,000 were drafted, but only 25 played a game (as it happens, even this number was unusually high ...
To sell the show, we created the narrative that Trump was a super-successful businessman who lived like royalty. That was the conceit of the show. At the very least, it was a substantial exaggeration; at worst, it created a false narrative by making him seem more successful than he was....
Tory is acting the way she is, and the narration is peppered with the kind of insights into chess strategy that you would expect from a preteen who was pretty serious about the game. There’s even an appendix (still written from Greg’s perspective) to explain the basic rules and ...
Every night I asked him how things were going and what he was up to. He told me the cats were fine and he wasn’t doing anything except hanging around. He had promised me that while I was gone he was going to clean out some space in our upstairs room so I could sew there. He ...
We’re doing a study based on Francis Chan’s bookCrazy Love. The study guide asked, “If today was the day you died, what would you regret, and why?” Revelation 3:2 answers that question for me in three ways. “Wake up!” ...
the ocean of sound. I loved being around so much music even if it was all at once, so alive. I went because I could and because I wanted to be in the room forMike Lawson’s presentation, “Deconstructing Steely Dan: The Roger Nichols Methods”. Being in a large standing-room-only...
I have hundreds of printer paper, covered in self-written notes from your video. This has given me a purpose. Last year, I spent all my time looking for a job where, without dealing with the public , I could work alone, but still have a team to talk to. Luckily, I discovered the...
In addition, I’ve written to Aldi in the Netherlands about their single-use pepper mills (and I later discovered empirically that the pepper mill by La Drogheria, by contrast,canbe reused even though it may look like it’s sealed shut too). Aldi wasn’t interested (and seemed surprised ...
This was the best year for the Oscars in decades. Top to bottom, this year’s films were better than any year in recent memory and you have to go back averylong time to start to get into years where, for the most part, the movies are excellent and the good ones win. That shouldn...
John and I did what little we could at first – preparing meals for the troops; taking up basic necessities for those who left everything to defend their country; keeping a written log of events as they transpired; and helping the IDF troops receive the necessary helmets and ceramic vests ...