Jeremy Lin turns to the crowd after making his career’s biggest shot.

Eight Years Ago, High on Mushrooms, I Watched Jeremy Lin’s Game Winner

Love is a shooting star.

Andrew Ricketts
6 min readFeb 14, 2020

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I loved Roxy for obvious reasons. I loved her for good reasons. She was smart and pretty and wrote poems. She was funny and acerbic and took no shit. She was Brooklyn. She rapped Nicki Minaj’s “Bees in the Trap” verse as hard as she could one night in Franklin Park and I surrendered. Her love was too big…

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Andrew Ricketts

I’m a Caribbean and American writer from New York. My stories are about coming-of-age, learning how to relate, and family. It’s a living, breathing memoir.