The Whole Gay Thing

GAME PLAN: “The bottom line is, what does a player’s sexual preference have to do with her ability to play basketball?” I wrote that in a front-page Sunday sports column on December 15, 1991 while working for The Times of Trenton. It was about Penn State women’s...

Pink, Parenting and Pre-Adolescent Lingerie

GAME PLAN: I love Pink. I particularly love how the anger that sometimes comes through her music fuels my workouts when I’m in that place. In fact, I think my thighs are a little smaller because of this very real and very gritty entertainer. Perhaps it is because I...

Anatomy of a transition

GAME PLAN: First comes the shock, right? Bam. There’s change. Not change you initiated, but change that feels like it’s been foisted on you. I have come to learn for me that’s ultimately the best kind. Emphasis here on ultimately. It’s rarely clear immediately that...

No empathy for rapists? Really?

GAME PLAN: You know how sometimes you click on a link because you can tell from the headline that the story is going to piss you off? And you know how sometimes it makes you go, “wait … hold on … no” instead? That’s me. Today. It seems there’s a pretty significant...

Butterflies and the Creator

GAME PLAN: It wasn’t planned, this day of mixing spirit and science. It just happened. My friend Kathi and I set out for the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to see the Butterfly Conservatory exhibit. We wandered through the tropical little enclosure as they...