November 29, 2023

Brotherly Love and Basketball

January 26, 2020 TGS Burner 0

My brother Brad wasn’t always my best friend. Growing up, as the two in the middle of the Four Downs Boys, we never really had much in common. He was always cool, I never was. […]

My Life as the Black Sheep

March 26, 2019 Jamie Steyer 0

Lots of people have a “thing.” Art, music, sports, something that makes them tick and keeps them going day after day. For the rest of my family, that thing is basketball. For me, it’s not. […]

I want a career and not a baby

June 12, 2017 Jacqueline Cordova 0

At a recent family reunion, I fielded a good amount of questions about my personal life. I’m 22, single and in college. The conversation started out casually and ended right where it always does…

To the family I gained in a bar

April 26, 2017 Jacqueline Cordova 0

Editors note: this piece was originally posted on Jacqueline’s personal blog. You can find the original piece here along with some of her other writing.  For some time I’ve pondered how to write this without it […]