Audacity, Self Awareness (& Basketball)

Posted by smgrady on February 6, 2015 · Leave a Comment 

In 7th grade I played intramural basketball. Being a late bloomer in 90% of human functionality, namely anything which wasn’t purely cognitive and especially anything requiring social skills or awareness, I played basketball like a child. At 13, I didn’t care who was watching, or if my jersey was lumpy. I didn’t care if the … Continue reading →

Filed under Life · Tagged with , , , , , , ,

The Other Olympics

Posted by smgrady on August 26, 2012 · 3 Comments 

I have a confession. I was always one of those people who thought of the Paralympics as a ultra-PC also-ran: a  really, nice, encouraging thing, ultimately defined by disability and limitation and therefore not as interesting as real sports. I have another confession. I was an idiot. Saying the Paralympics are just the Olympics with … Continue reading →

Filed under Art & Pop Culture, Starter for Ten · Tagged with , , ,

In the arena, I’m still young at heart

Posted by smgrady on July 31, 2012 · 2 Comments 

Between the ages of 9 and 14 I spent an inordinate amount of time following the American Women’s Gymnastics team. I would buy magazines with babysitting money, purely because they featured some “day-in-the-life” story of one of the Olympic hopefuls of my youth. I quietly obsessed about those girls the way other kids knew famous … Continue reading →

Filed under Art & Pop Culture, Starter for Ten, Thirty Things · Tagged with , , , ,