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The sports seasons are all over. The tournaments have wound down. And my time as a sports writer is over for now. Many games ended how I expected, while others had surprising outcomes. Although I had written about sports for The Reflector, I didn’t think of myself as a sports writer per se. But I … Continue reading What I learned from writing about sports
The day I saw the hives, Stephanie and I swapped bee stories. Honeybee facts, statistics, jargon—this was our dinner conversation, while everyone else in the restaurant talked about the Pacers or something. We were eating Thai food that was abnormally hot. Yes, I know that Thai is known to be spicy, but this was so … Continue reading The Bee’s Knees
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get … Continue reading From “The 400-Pound CEO”
I'm not the biggest sports fan out there. But I like a challenge, to get to test my abilities in areas that, let's say, are not my strongest. So when The Reporter-Times asked me to cover some spring sports, I said yes without thinking twice. It wasn't like I went in completely ignorant of sports. … Continue reading The Sporting Life
As a staff writer at BuzzFeed, Lara Parker spends her days figuring out how to make list articles—"listicles"— that will go viral. And she loves it. Just last year, though, she was a recent UIndy grad trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life. I was working at a PR agency at … Continue reading Lara Parker: BuzzFeed staff lister extraordinaire
I was walking around Lowe’s with this homeless guy. Let’s call him Randy. He had long, stringy hair and a gaunt face, and his accent was Kentuckian-ish. We were at Lowe’s because his flashlight was dead. It was a small, blue LED light, the size and shape of a toilet paper tube. The problem was … Continue reading Somebody else’s problem
I want to say “Thank you” to every single person who has wished me well and congratulated me. The kind words over the past few days have been countless. Really, it has been a long journey, and I would not have been able to do it without the support of friends, family and faculty. Thank … Continue reading Graduation
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. That cumbersome computer could hold so many contradictory opinions on so many different subjects all at once, and switch from one opinion or subject to another one so quickly, that a discussion between … Continue reading God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut
When it comes to fiction, Franz Kafka is amazing. He was ahead of his time, and in some respects, is ahead of ours. However, he wasn't that much of an essayist, according to some personal reflections in Franz Kafka: Diaries, 1910-1923. In his journal, Kafka comments on some lines from Goethe, saying: The difficulties of bringing to an end … Continue reading Essay advice from Franz Kafka
James Figy 