Her gaze dismantles me.
Not all at once.
Slowly.
Patiently.
Like she has discovered every wall I’ve spent years building and somehow knows exactly where to place her hands.
A single look from her can quiet an entire room.
A lingering glance can follow me for hours.
And when her eyes settle on mine with that unmistakable warmth, I feel something inside me begin to surrender.
Because she doesn’t merely look at me.
She sees me.
The strength I carry.
The weariness beneath it.
The longing I try so hard to disguise.
And that is what undoes me.
The feeling that, for a fleeting moment, there is nowhere left to hide.
No armor.
No performance.
No carefully chosen words.
Only the truth of who I am reflected back to me in her eyes.
There is an intimacy in that which steals my breath.
The way she studies me when she thinks I’m not paying attention.
The way her gaze lingers as though she’s memorizing something she doesn’t want to lose.
And every time it happens, I find myself falling a little further.
Because her gaze feels less like observation…
and more like a gentle unraveling.
A beautiful dismantling of every lonely defense I’ve ever built.
Until all that remains is a heart standing quietly before her—
hoping she’ll keep looking at it that way forever.
Connor McDavid, YOU ARE the Ted Lindsay Award winner for the fifth time! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 #NHLAwards
The award is presented annually to the most outstanding player as voted by the players.
With so many people myself included facing sticker shock for a lot of of our grocery prices, especially meat prices.
It’s a good time to remember that the origins of BBQ was never about taking the most expensive cuts of meat and making them delicious .
It was taking the discarded tougher cuts and making them amazing through low and slow smoking, marinades and more.
Pork Butts, Picnic & chuck roasts, clods, hams, whole turkey, chicken quarters and whole pork loins are all still very reasonably priced.
James Wood is 23 years old & has played in 299 career games. He has recorded 126 extra-base hits & 175 walks.
In MLB history, only three players have recorded 125+ XBH and 175+ BB in 299 or fewer games before turning 24:
Ted Williams
Juan Soto
James Wood
Congratulations to Connor McDavid, who becomes the second five-time #TedLindsayAward recipient in the award’s history, sharing the record with Wayne Gretzky for the most TLA wins!
The @EdmontonOilers captain led the 2025-26 regular season in points and assists while becoming the third-fastest player to reach 1,200 points in NHL history: https://t.co/1Y6vVru32Q
This Date DC Sports History
June 7, 2018:
#Caps beat Vegas 4-3 in GM5 to win the #StanleyCup for the first time in franchise history
Below: #Caps lineup sheet that was distributed in @TMobileArena PressBox that night
NHL & NHLPA announce the Hockey Fights Cancer initiative surpassed the $53M mark
Thank you to everyone who has contributed…let’s keep the momentum going
My heart is missing from him
Life rewrote my story
Changing paths
A tidal wave of emotions fill my mind
No new memories for us to make
Long gone are the days we'd share forever
Now you walk beside me in different form
I still remember
The warmth ot that night
With the window open
The scent of rain in the air
And your low voice
Who was gently interrupting the silence at times
The quiet sound
Of our breathing
And the distant sound of the city
You don’t even have to touch me
The thought of you is enough
To make stillness turn into movement
To make my thoughts tremble
In places I didn’t know could feel
It is only because it is real
This pull
This fire
This closeness
That doesn’t ask permission
To exist between us.