The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself–the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with...

I never understood people who don’t have bookshelves

I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I’m still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.