Identity

My dog Brutus died yesterday morning. He had three seizures from low blood sugar. He wasn’t going to make it […]

There’s a version of you that exists completely independent of what’s happening to you right now. I had to remind

Monday I played tennis on two hours of sleep. My dog Brutus — 12 years old — had been up

There’s a thing that happens when you get a diagnosis. Or when a relationship ends. Or when the job disappears,

There’s a moment nobody warns you about. It’s not the diagnosis. It’s not the hardest day of treatment. It’s not

I was serving for the set. 5-3, 40-30. Match point territory. The kind of moment you’ve been building toward for

Yesterday I lost a tennis match I should have won. I won the first set 6-0. Had match point in

Most of this year I thought I was chasing goals. The job. The relationship. The body. The finances. I had

My doubles partner turned to me mid-tiebreaker and apologized. We were down 4-6, 6-4. The match tiebreaker had barely started

I was at sectionals last weekend when a kid came up and asked how I was doing. His name is