Baxter can make a name all by himself


I’m sure you have seen the video by now. After all, it has been watched almost two million times. The football player in the clip runs a sweep, darts to the sideline, cuts back once, twice and then a third time while defenders fall around him as if their legs suddenly turned to jelly. Running […]

Fear and self-loathing in column writing


I have been writing this column every week for two and a half years, but the process feels more bizarre every time I pick up a copy of the paper. I try to come up with similes to help rationalize what still seems foreign to me. Lately, column writing has begun to take on the […]