Last night, Emily and I joined some of her school friends in attending a reading by noted “humorist” David Sedaris. It was kind of appalling. It should be noted that I have avoided reading Sedaris, despite recommendations from many of…
Category: A Day in the Life
The End of the Season
It’s October. There’s a lot of sleight of hand involved in October, but perhaps its greatest achievement is bringing an end to baseball season without generally making me upset about said end. Granted that the excitement of playoff baseball and…
The 20th Century: All About the Soviets
Part 5 in an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 5 (re: Native American Reparations) Today’s round features one of the best cases I ever hit in my tenure on APDA, run by a…
Lights, Pumpkins, Action
In October 2002, back in the relatively early days of Introspection, I first came up with the idea of altering the whole theme of the blog site to celebrate Halloween. In 2004, after two years of just changing the color…
Monday Monday
Days like this, I miss having Introspection. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed and uninspired and like I have thousands of things to catch people up on. Just like 2.5 weeks ago, it’s time for bullet points: I spent most of…
Solitary, Bookish, and Mid-Sized
September still has a week to go, but the stats are looking pretty good for work on American Dream On. While work on various other projects, including three short stories and a quiz, has slowed substantially, this has been the…
The Most Open Case that Never Lost
While we’re waiting to see if I have the inclination to post my journal from last year’s India/Nepal trip, I figured I could trot out the rest of the Stanford 2002 filmed rounds as a recurring set of content for…
All Wide-Eyed Like the Rest
It was a weekend to examine youth. Em and I have been watching the Up Series, a continuum of documentaries about 14 British children who turned 7 in 1964. In the first film, they are shown expressing their hopes and…
And a Star to Steer Her By
When I lived in Oregon and wasn’t attending sixth grade, somewhere between my acting life and my speech and debate life, I opened a play directed by a friend of my parents with a recitation of “Sea-Fever” by John Masefield.…
The Sojourn in Pictures: New Jersey
Part 16 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Thursday: Pennsylvania We missed the entry sign for Jersey amidst construction. However, this is almost as good – the other half of the sign (not pictured) says The World…