Forgive the use of the Star Warsy sounding subtitle in the new logo up top, but it’s really the most accurate thing I can convey. There’s a reason that film was a smash hit, and if you go back and…
Category: The Agony of the Wait is the Agony of Debate
Another Saturday Night
I was alone all yesterday, a Saturday. I’m not making that mistake again. Barring a major change, I’m going to be booked the next 26* Saturdays: 30 October: UPenn tournament (Philadelphia, PA) 6 November: American tournament (Washington, DC) 13 November:…
Friday Without a Cause
There’s no debate this weekend. Not because there’s no scheduled tournament, but because that tournament doesn’t serve the purposes of the Rutgers team. It’s in British Parliamentary style, designed to prepare American teams for competition on the Worlds stage, with…
Silence is Rotten
So, I’m not sure my whole volunteering plan is going to work out that well. Debate works as a distraction from my vast emotional pain for two reasons. For one, it is a reaffirmation that I have some modicum of…
Epic Wins
It’s been a long time since something went right for me. This weekend, a whole heck of a lot went right in a hurry. I am trying to get used to the feeling of being really super-happy. I was silly-smiley…
Rain-Dance
Debate seems to have this transcendent power to lift me up in the darkest times. Suffice it to say times have been pretty dark, so thank goodness I chose to spend a year focusing on debate. I don’t know what…
In the Money
This past weekend was a good one. As always, you can check out the Rutgers Debate blog for details on how things went for the team. They neither disappointed nor went over the top this weekend, though they were frustrated…
Back to the Beans
Boston, it’s been a while. Today is slated to mark my first return to the city I lovingly call The Beans since a 2006 trip to compete with Emily in the Boston University tournament four years after our graduation. Wouldn’t…
Good News, Sad News
Many thanks to Madeleine Sumption for carving the pumpkin that Matthew “Fish” McFeeley photographed to create this year’s October theme-change here at StoreyTelling. For four years now, the annual October theme picture has been of pumpkins carved at the prior…
When I Fall
“Hang on to your wallet hang on to your rings I can’t look below me something will throw me I curse at the windstorms that October brings … I wish I could fly from this building from this wall and…