Ability Quote by Mary Pilon

Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

— Mary Pilon

My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and…

— Mary Pilon

Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book,…

— Mary Pilon

As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't…

— Mary Pilon

As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit.

— Mary Pilon

Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive…

— Mary Pilon

I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging.

— Mary Pilon

Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being…

— Mary Pilon

Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous…

— Mary Pilon

Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from…

— Mary Pilon

Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an…

— Mary Pilon

As the issue of youth fitness - from obesity to proper exercise regimens - takes on more resonance in schools and communities across the…

— Mary Pilon