Stories of Hospitality
1. Not going to lie, I have the gift of hospitality. If I have ever hosted you, you know that I genuinely love bringing people together to play games, celebrate birthdays, or just hang...
Category: sports
What I learned at my first NBA game
It’s hard to believe, but there was a time in my childhood when I enjoyed playing basketball with friends. I even remember my mom sending me to this random basketball/sports camp growing up. After...
What Being Terrible At Sports Taught Me About Myself
A year ago today, I asked my friend Allen if he would help me practice volleyball on some sand courts after work. I had met Allen playing on an indoor league and was immediately...
Weekend update
In a nutshell: it was a lot of volleyball. On Saturday morning, I was super lucky to try sitting volleyball for the very first time with a member of the USWNT. Basically, I invited...
January 2016
If there was a theme to the first month of 2016, it’s work hard, play hard. It all started off with a quick New Year’s weekend trip to Spokane, Washington to celebrate a friend’s birthday. I wasn’t...
Volleyball and Crossfit
I just got back from a vacation to LA, and as expected, it was wonderful. LA has become my go-to vacation spot of late because of the amazing weather and beaches there (primarily Hermosa...
My First Time Covering College Men’s Volleyball
If you had told me ten years ago that I would have the opportunity to be media for Stanford Men’s Volleyball, I would have said you’re crazy. I don’t think I ever touched a...
Day 8: It is finished.
Apologies to my readers (all 3 of you) for posting this a day late…I actually started writing this yesterday, but didn’t have a chance to finish it. So…I made it! And I didn’t get...
Day 7: One…more…day…
Two things are clear after 7 days of Crossfit at 6 am: There’s only one thing that I should be consistently doing at 6 am, and that is sleeping. I didn’t mind getting up...
Day 6: Just two days left in the Crossfit experiment…
Joan typically arrives late to class, and today was no exception. I guess she must like going through the warm-up exercises, because otherwise she could arrive even later and avoid it entirely. After warming...
Ted, thanks for your courage for speaking out your thoughts, especially right after this horrible event. It's been a a…