1993 Yeshiva University Promo Video Is Glorious And So Deliciously 80s/90s...
It has been a long while since I've last blogged here, but for mostly good reasons. I've been traveling for the gymnastics book. And then writing said book. But I had to briefly emerge from blogging...
View ArticleThe Emergence of Great Britain Made Euros Feel Competitive Again
The results at the European Championships used to be a good indication of how things would play out at the upcoming World Championships or Olympic Games. Tatiana Gutsu won the all-around in 1992 and...
View ArticleWhy is Catherine Lyons' floor exercise so good?
Over the weekend, Catherine Lyons, the British gymnast that the entire gymternet seems to have an enormous crush on, made all of our dreams come true by winning the floor gold in the junior portion of...
View ArticleDo I have a future writing romance books?
I know that I'm Ms. Gymnastics at the moment but I think I might have a future writing romance novels. A couple of weeks ago, News Corp announced that it would be acquiring Harlequin, the publisher of...
View ArticleDone Being Niche
Gymnastics is not a niche sport. There, I said it.Since I started writing about gymnastics, I've routinely fielded questions from folks about whether you can make a career out of writing about...
View ArticleBig Book News: The End of the Ten
After five months of research, interviews, writing, and rewriting, I'm so excited to announce that I'll be writing a book about gymnastics, which will be published before the 2016 Olympics in...
View ArticleDate Jessie Kahnweiler
For Elle, I had great fun interviewing Jessie Kahnweiler, the mad scientist behind last fall's viral sensation, "Meet My Rapist." Kahnweiler is hilarious and brash--my favorite kind of Jewish woman. In...
View ArticleLinks, Continued
Woman does not live by gymnastics writing alone. In addition to all of the writing I did on the topics of figure skating and gymnastics, I've spent the last few months writing about other topics nears...
View ArticleLong Time, No Write
It has been far too long since I updated this site. Apologies for my unforgivable blogging delinquency over the last few months.But it's not like I haven't been writing. I spent the last few months...
View ArticleCast of the Broadway Show Pippin wants to save Temple Men's Gymnastics
Here's a video made by Temple gymnastics alum and current Pippin performer, Richard Maguire:This crisis and others like it should force universities to rethink how resources are split between sports....
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The Job Ad That Proves How Desperately You Need the Person You're Trying to Hire
I was perusing the writing job section of Craigslist as is my custom and I found this ad from Major League Soccer:They are looking for "preditor"--which according to the body of the ad is a hybrid term...
View ArticleAnti Anti-Vaxxer Satire: Jenny McCarthy Takes Her Dog to the Vet
I wasn't a fan of Jenny McCarthy back when she was on MTV or in Playboy, but posing nude or sticking your tongue out on camera are neutral actions for me. I didn't give her existence much thought, one...
View ArticleMissing In Action: The Shushunova on Floor Exercise
I was just watching Oksana Chusovitina's floor exercise performance at this weekend's Mexican Open where she performed a Shushunova at the end of her floor routine when it hit me--where have all the...
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What do "get" and Breaking Bad have in common?
This meme that I made--my second ever and my first without technical assistance.I don't know why this concept was beyond me up until this point--it was so easy. Much easier than trying to extract a...
View ArticleBreak Dancing Double Back
Next week is the Red Bull BC One Finals in Korea and one of the b-boys who has qualified to compete is Gravity. He's a former tumbling champion and brings that prowess to his b-boy sets. He is probably...
View ArticleAn Arabian Double Front Is A Forward Pass
File this under: You learn something new every day.Or: I probably should've known this.I was procrastinating on a deadline as I do and I decided to watch some of the London WAG Team Finals and as I...
View ArticleVera Caslavska Hall of Fame Induction Speech
Last night, I was tumbling down my YouTube gymnastics hole, as per usual, when I came across 1968 Olympic gold medalist Vera Caslvaska's International Gymnastics Hall of Fame speech.For those of you...
View ArticleDisappointing Gymnast Memoirs
I've been reading a lot of gymnastics books lately for a project. Most of these books are memoirs from famous coaches and athletes, and unsurprisingly, the prose is boring. Every time, I pick up one of...
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When You Come Into The Gym, You Have No Religion
In a twist of Brooklyn fate, I have been living within five blocks of my old gymnastics coach for the past four years (and counting). She no longer coaches. She and her husband own a bar in the West...
View ArticleCompetitive Artistry?
I know I should stop talking about artistry, especially after last week's coded language posts. But I just came across this piece in The New Republic about ballet competitions and thought it applied to...
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