Essay, From The Classical — I started this essay on how both the Celtics and Blue Note Records created their own kinds of dynasties without any real idea where it was going. I was fascinated by each in their own way but ultimately became most interested in how their legacies were created more by persistent flexibility than dogged adherence to one approach.

Essay, From Medium — For years, I couldn’t listen to the Beatles ballad that’s indelibly linked to my mother’s death. Then my one-year-old daughter helped me start to make it better.