Tommy Tomlinson

After Mister Rogers

We went to see the Mister Rogers documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Everything we read and heard warned us to be ready to cry. One friend told me she

A new beginning, plus Lenny Kravitz

It’s a good week here. Sports on Earth launched on Monday, and I’ll be writing there several times a week for as long as they’ll have me. (My first piece

FOMO

(Two things: 1. Image lifted from fomo.com, fine purveyor of spray foam insulation products; 2. No, that’s not me in the photo. My haircut was even worse back then.) On

Our old dog

It’s not fair to write about a dying dog. Just those last two words are enough. Automatic tears. So I understand if you stop here. But I need to

In search of Kandi

I warn you now, this will be a long and winding post… but you’ll hear some good music along the way. The first thing I want you to do is

The Sawx and baseball bigamy

When I was 11 I became a baseball two-timer. Growing up in Georgia I was by default an Atlanta Braves fan, the key syllable in there being “fault.” The Braves

Poetry man

This is Harvard: Today I stood in line to get tickets to a poetry reading. The guy in front of me had driven an hour from the suburbs. By the

Unplugged

Last night we saw our third Hitchcock movie in two days. The Brattle Theatre in downtown Cambridge is doing a retrospective on Hitchcock’s 1950s films; on Sunday we saw a

It’s paperback day!

I don’t think this is an official national holiday yet — we had not heard back from Congress at press time — but it’s still a great day: “The Elephant

New season, new goal

It’s the first day of fall. Time to start projects. And the project at the top of my list is writing regular posts on this blog. Blogs are the digital

The Panthers, the Super Bowl, and faith

The great Calvin Trillin once wrote that anybody who doesn’t think the best hamburger in the world comes from his hometown is a sissy. I live in Charlotte. In related

What It All Means: The SEC-Big 12 Bowl

Let’s begin with a short instructional video: That big lion, the one that zoomed to the head of the pack? That’s the SEC. The slightly slower lion is the Big

Short Stories

Short Stories

After Mister Rogers

A new beginning, plus Lenny Kravitz

FOMO

Our old dog

In search of Kandi

The Sawx and baseball bigamy

Poetry man

Unplugged

It’s paperback day!

New season, new goal

The Panthers, the Super Bowl, and faith

What It All Means: The SEC-Big 12 Bowl