Category: Notes

Being what most would simply call ‘blog posts’. Quick posts [usually] about a single idea.


  • The Woods Of Tasmania

    The Woods Of Tasmania

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Taken in the woods of Tasmania in December. My mind is on the effort ahead as much today as it was that day, though those stairs were easier to conquer than what lies before me now. One step at a time, as they say.

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  • Something Of A Useless Abstraction

    Something Of A Useless Abstraction

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) For The Girl, a trip to Perth is a return to her roots. For me it is quite the opposite: there is nowhere on land that is further away from West Virginia. In the shade of this tree and other trees like it, we […]

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  • Pretty Little Perth Girl

    Pretty Little Perth Girl

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) In Perth with my pretty little Perth girl. Resting before the very big year to come.

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  • Awaiting The Train To Onehunga

    Awaiting The Train To Onehunga

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) My mind has recently been on New Zealand and the ten amazing days I spent there this time last year. This was Britomart early on a Saturday morning. I was awaiting the train to Onehunga, a southern suburb of Auckland. Because Auckland is situated […]

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  • Steady Skyline

    Steady Skyline

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Blurry people. Streaking traffic. Steady skyline.

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  • Turnovers Are A Part Of The Game

    Turnovers Are A Part Of The Game

    Dana Holgorsen – head coach of my beloved West Virginia Mountaineers – used his time in the weekly Big XII coaches teleconference to outline an interesting framing of a common issue in football: turnovers. Turnovers are typically seen in a negative way and they are indeed the very worst way for an offensive possession to […]

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  • No Such Problems

    No Such Problems

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) It’s been hard to keep my head up this week. These kids were having no such problems in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum back in July.

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  • As The Test Wound Down

    As The Test Wound Down

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Took a couple of days to edit the photos from Day Four, but this one stood out. Amanda-Jade Wellington doing work as the test wound down.

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  • Ellyse Perry Unbeaten For 213

    Ellyse Perry Unbeaten For 213

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) And on Day Three I and the other nearly 4,000 in attendance witnessed Australian cricket history: Ellyse Perry unbeaten for 213. This test – my first – has been memorable enough already, but I’ll carry the memory of witnessing Perry’s monumental accomplishment for the […]

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  • C’mon Aussie, C’mon

    C’mon Aussie, C’mon

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Day Two and we have ourselves a match. C’mon Aussie, C’mon.

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