#78: Take It or Leave It
A monthly drop of things I love
Welcome to Take It or Leave It. Every month, sometimes a few times a month, Paid subscribers will receive a quick hit of things I’m loving.
Most of my writing is long-form and requires time for research between essays. Hopefully, this helps fill in the gaps for you with new finds (or things you want to revisit).
If not, all good. Take it or leave it ✌️
May was jam-packed. I turned 31, celebrated my sister’s college graduation, got to see some wonderful friends, went to a wedding in Chicago, got to see more wonderful friends, hit four years at my job, worked on my first TV set, and finally said goodbye to the Denver Nuggets’ 2024-25 season.
While I’m still recovering, I was proud to help welcome these projects into the world:
My latest newsletter essay on the “face of the NBA” debates
This #CreatorTeaTalk panel on mental health in the creator economy
My interview with
on the body, brain, and booksThis profile on Columbus painter Dillon Beck for (614) Magazine’s Refined
My birthday essay on Future’s Dirty Sprite 2
I hope you enjoy and share with someone special. And I welcome you with these words from Hanif Abdurraqib in his Texas Monthly profile on Opal Lee, the Grandmother of Juneteenth:
“Tidy up your corner of the world the best you can, and maybe someone else will see that and take their own actions, and if enough of us do that, at least some of the world becomes better.”
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Something I watched
Long overdue, but I finally got around to watching The Righteous Gemstones. Spending many years of my life in megachurches, especially in the South, I knew this show was right up my alley. But I underestimated how much it would become embedded in my living.