The second round of the NHL Playoffs begins tonight in Florida with one of the most exciting series in recent memories about to be relived. I’d like to continue this series of writings on the sport I love so deeply with some thoughts on the series that are about to…

I hadn’t planned on making this list this year, as I started taking a strange turn during the first portion of the year into a mental place of disenchantment, lack of worth, lack of value, etc. While great music still continued to drop, I felt a little bit like adding…

I watch a lot of hockey, at least a game a night, sometimes two. And through all of this, I come to the end of every season with absolutely zero clarity about who’s going to Win It All, let alone having a level of certainty about who’s going to win…

An important piece of advice that I’ve begun to really follow more and more as I’ve grown older is that one should never meet their idols. At the very best case scenario, you’ll find they’re a great person, they’ve shared their time with you, and they will really honor your…

For years, this novel has hovered above the horizon, one of those massive and daunting challenges that listed as a nondescript smudge on the lens, a name that came up often, mostly in the context of a pretentious, reaching stretch of a badge you wear more than a story you…

When you think about games that you’d deem “great” or even “very good”, what are the first things you think of? Is it the graphics? The controls? The polish? The balance of power? The sound? The story? …

When it comes to movies, I just haven’t found a way to care about most of what Marvel puts out. I really liked Thor: Ragnarok, but I think that film in particular kind of stands on its own as a kind of action/comedy that probably has some stake somewhere in…

I did not know that this was a collection of short stories when I picked it up. I did not know that it was a small, compact little number that would pack such a wallop. I did not know it would speak from the heart of Greece, from a place…

Top five. This is when it gets major. These are the games that have that vintage stamp on them, the ones that you want to frame and display on a mantle. The ones that shaped the way you heard music down the line, the ones that set you up for…