Point of View

O P I N I O N NOT THAT PROFOUND By Nathan Graziano Here is a personal secret: I have

What I truly admired about these Romantic poets, however, was the fact that it didn’t seem like any of these dudes had to work real jobs. While Keats did train to be a surgeon, he died before he could practice medicine, and guys like Lord Byron didn’t have to put aside “Don Juan” to scrub dishes. 

When I was 12 years old, my cousin and I were racing our bikes on the street in front of my aunt and uncle’s house. We were gliding, neck and neck, toward the finish line at the end of the curb, when my cousin pulled ahead, and my front tire clipped my cousin’s back tire, launching me over the handlebars, face first, onto the cement. 

Aside from being one of the most viewed annual sporting events worldwide, the Super Bowl is primarily a celebration of everything American—gluttony, debauchery, consumerism, violence. 

O P I N I O N NOT THAT PROFOUND By Nathan Graziano Last week, one of my lesson plans

While journalists were seldom recognized at restaurants, the literary landscape had also changed. With the smartphone assuming its role as the slavemaster for most Americans, fewer and fewer people now had the attention span necessary to sit down and read an actual book.    

There is “something” about staring down the barrel of a half-century on Planet Earth that has set changes into motion for me.

Make a list of your goals for 2025. Know you’re unlikely to follow through with most of them; know the act is largely symbolic; know your ass is never waking up early to exercise.