Nerd to the Core

Yesterday during the Top 8 of Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad , Director of Global Organized Play Helene Bergeot took to the news desk to a...

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding." - John Updike

Today ESPN killed Grantland . I never wrote for the site, read it only sporadically, and loved every minute. I got introduced to Ja...

The last time the Mets were in the playoffs I poured my emotions into the games. I was in grad school and the games were a connection to ho...

Today I started wondering about why I started writing. I could have stopped. But I didn't. Grad school demanded pages upon pages of w...

The DNA of the New York in which I grew up was that of a diaspora. It was a place for the pieces that didn't fit with other puzzles.  ...

There are so many stories surrounding my recent wedding. I don't want to forget any of them, so I'm recording them for posterity he...