An in-depth chat with Janna Lapidus Leblanc. She was Stevie Ray Vaughan's fiancee at the time of his death; they met four years earlier in Wellington - she's a Kiwi, now based in America. She has recently written and published a book of photos that tells the story of their love affair. Janna and I talk about Stevie, his music, their relationship, her book. We talk too about her life, her upbringing, her career (professional model), her grieving of Stevie.

Without hesitation, Parker confirmed my suspicion this weekend. She’s unashamedly over my money talks. “Yes!” she exclaimed when asked if she’s sick of them. But you should have seen her little face light up when I told her we’d be recording a podcast — her first podcast. She didn’t even care it was about money. After revealing our Substack to her Friday night, laying by her side as she read through each post and giving her a minute to digest the idea, I told Parker she would be the first guest on the “Money Talks Podcast.

In many ways, my entire lacrosse writer life has been leading up to this article. This is, in numerous avenues, a confluence of personal challenges and my own philosophies as a player, a coach, and an analyst. A common axiom that is shared and perpetuated by coaches from the beginning of time is that anyone of any size can play lacrosse. So, what would happen if a team of players that were all 5’ 9’’ or shorter played against a team of guys that were all 6’ 3’’ or taller?

The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy In the Everyday offers exercises, prompts, provocations, games and things you can actually do to build attention muscles, stave off distraction, pick up on what everybody else overlooked, and experience the joy of noticing. Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & Noble … ncG1vNJzZmiqn5fEorjKnqlnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wwMCopWZsZGK2pLHBq5yao5WnerS8xJygmqQ%3D

(Image used under license from Shutterstock.com.)I’m in London for the wedding of two great friends who are at the heart of political and cultural London society. Former Prime Minster David Cameron gave the toast at the reception last evening. So it was appropriate that on my ride over to the reception, my cab driver decided to use the opportunity of the holiday traffic to explain the misery—at least as he saw it—of living in a post-Brexit, post-12-years-of-the-Tory-party England.