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Dave Martin

I Got To Watch Messi

For nigh on a decade, probably longer, I’ve admired Lionel Messi as the world’s greatest football (whereby football, I mean soccer) player…

4 min readMay 2, 2024

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MLS referee crew, Carles Gil of New England Revolution, and Lionel Messi, the greatest soccer player on the planet, taking the field at Gillette Stadium on April 27, 2024. Gil in the Revs blue kits with red accents, Messi in the Inter Miami pink kit.

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Dave Martin

Kimiko’s Game

I haven’t worn my schoolgirl uniform in a few weeks. It’s not that I dislike it, or the attention it gets when I step onto the bus from my…

15 min readMay 19, 2023

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Dave Martin

Serena Makes Me Feel and Care

I was slow to the adoration of Serena Williams. In truth, my preferences for certain female tennis players was strongly (I’m a Neanderthal…

2 min readSep 1, 2022

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Dave Martin

On Being a Lapsed Comic Book Geek

As a teen, I found the stories I wanted to be told in the newsprint pages of comic books. The college years shelved them. Then, my kids…

7 min readJun 15, 2022

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On Being a Lapsed Comic Book Geek

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Dave Martin

On being a middle-aged, overweight, white male in America, 2022

In my town, today, it is Graduation Day. More than a handful of those kids I’ve known their entire teenaged years. I’m freaking out…

5 min readJun 5, 2022

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On being a middle-aged, overweight, white male in America, 2022

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Dave Martin

Sitting in the car in a parking lot, waiting for my life to start… and end

Outside my youngest kid’s school, sitting in our car, in the parking lot while he enjoys a rousing soccer practice this evening, I’m…

3 min readJun 4, 2022

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Sitting in the car in a parking lot, waiting for my life to start… and end

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Dave Martin

Dave Martin

A middle-aged man trying to understand where he went right and wrong in previous phases of his life by writing about anything but...

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