I’m the type of person who usually runs away from having my picture taken. But when I saw what Kristin Reimer was able to bring out in people, it was probably the first time in my life that I was sorry to have avoided a photo session. Kristin was the photographer for MISTI-Con 2023. I couldn’t avoid
I drove to Hershey, PA to see Kurt Browning for one last time with Stars on Ice on June 4, 2023. I think I first saw him skate live almost 30 years ago. This man has won figure skating world championships both with and without figures. I just saw him land four double axels; for
Figure skater, coach, choreographer, writer, activist, publicist. I loved Doug Mattis dearly for half his life before he died at age 56. He didn’t want me to know about the five years of cancer at the end. I am grateful to his mother, Jill Marberger, for doing the emotional labor of telling me and comforting
It’s wild when figure skaters good enough for internationals are just as good at other skills. I loved the fresh writing in this memoir by the first U.S. female skater to come out while still competing. If you remember any freedance from U.S. Nationals from the past couple of years, chances are you remember Manta
Figure skater Adam Rippon, the first U.S. athlete to medal at a Winter Olympics while being out as gay, has released a memoir called Beautiful on the Outside. I’ve been following gay issues in figure skating since the 1990s, and once ran a website called Rainbow Ice (1998-2006) that was the first to be dedicated to
Thank you to Becky Mezzanotte for the header photo. To read the show review of Stars on Ice, skip down six paragraphs. What does figure skating have to do with Snape? Nothing in particular. (Although if anyone wants to write a fanfic in which Snape is lead potioneer for a government-sponsored athlete doping scheme
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