A Muse For Recognition
A story about standing inside someone else’s legacy long before I had words for it—and the moment recognition finally arrived.
Tag: pop jones
What Are Sports (and Snoop Dogg) Doing Here?
Now that the Olympics are over, what’s next? I don’t know what I’ll do with myself without Snoop Dogg randomly popping up at the Olympics. Whenever I saw him, I wondered what’s he doing there. And then I’d smile and remember Pop Jones scrolling through his phone after our interview last year to show me… Continue reading What Are Sports (and Snoop Dogg) Doing Here?
The Timeless Wisdom of Pop Jones: Breaking Rules and Making History
Some rules we follow and some rules we break—who knew this longer than anyone? Our Founding Fathers and Pop Jones. He saw 106 Independence Days before he passed away this January at 107 years old. As a boy growing up in West Philadelphia, he had no rights once he left a prescribed area of town.… Continue reading The Timeless Wisdom of Pop Jones: Breaking Rules and Making History