His Subtle Speech

A gentle nudge at the fork of the road

Boxing Out

A Note

The Spitter

Spare the frogs but not the scorpions

The Island

Where I’m from

The Eloquent Silence of It

Sometimes you don’t need to fill the gaps

His Listening

A celebration of a rare and extraordinary thing

The Bulletin Board of Your Head

Who has a ponytail at 70?

Crush

The way she flowed into that bus

Cinnabar

In praise of the One O’Clock Fox

Friday Morning Pop Quiz

(There will be no extra credit)

Playing Ball in Brooklyn

Sweep before you leap

The National Sport

A note on Aussie football with the season Down Under now underway

The Old Sneakers With Which We Mow the Lawn

A love song

Conscious Fouls

A season-ending note on roundball

The Hills and Dales of Their Father

Remembrance of a Saturday morning

What Is Snow Like?

For starters, it’s cold

In the Rain by the River

All that’s missing is an ark

On Scouting

A note

The Guy Who Wore His Son Like a Scarf

What’s more important than a game?

A Letter to the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh

(Who Just Issued a Fatwa Forbidding Chess in Saudi Arabia)

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