40 Tennis Gifts That Aren’t a Racquet
Somebody is asking his doubles partner for a grip size and a head weight before the game has even finished, ...
Read the guideSomebody is asking his doubles partner for a grip size and a head weight before the game has even finished, ...
Read the guideA duffel bag sits by the door that never quite dries out between classes, and whoever’s paying for those classes ...
Read the guideHe’s watched every game for fifteen years, and the last present he unwrapped was a jersey in a color he ...
Read the guideSomebody who slept in a field at Bethel in 1969 and somebody who bought a tie-dye crop top last spring ...
Read the guideAsk her what she wants and she’ll say a new leotard, and that is the one thing you should not ...
Read the guideAsk a player what they want and they’ll say dice. Then they’ll go and buy their own anyway. Sets get ...
Read the guideA golden birthday is the year your age matches the date you were born on, so somebody born on the ...
Read the guideA first car is usually somebody else’s fourth. It has a scuffed bumper, a hundred and forty thousand miles on ...
Read the guideIn June the walk to homeroom is automatic. By the end of August it is a different building, a longer ...
Read the guideThe alarm goes off at four something and the water outside is still black. That is the hour a lot ...
Read the guideA skater picks his own deck the way a chef picks a knife. Width, concave, wheelbase, the shape of the ...
Read the guideA bronze coin struck somewhere in the Roman empire can still be bought, held in a palm and set down ...
Read the guideThe piano in the room was chosen a long time ago, probably by somebody else, and the bench came with ...
Read the guideA drummer replaces his own sticks, picks his own cymbals, and will tell you what he thinks about stick taper ...
Read the guideMermaid means one thing to a six-year-old and something else to a woman in her forties. The kid wants the ...
Read the guideThe part that gets people is that hummingbirds come back. A bird weighing less than a nickel crosses the Gulf ...
Read the guideA giraffe’s heart has to push blood about six feet straight up the neck before any of it reaches the ...
Read the guideA christening gift is given to someone who cannot hold her own head up yet. The parents unwrap it, thank ...
Read the guideSecond grade is when most American parishes bring children to the altar rail for the first time, and the girl ...
Read the guideEighteen is the birthday where presents stop matching the age and start matching the year ahead: a license already in ...
Read the guideA turtle carries its shell everywhere, which is maybe why so much of what gets made for turtle lovers is ...
Read the guideA 70mm refractor sits directly beside a five-planet metal orrery on this list, and that pairing is the point: this ...
Read the guideA full moon gets photographed by half the internet every month, but the person on your list who tracks the ...
Read the guideA lot of Japan gift guides repeat the same five items: chopsticks, a rice cooker, a katana letter opener, done. ...
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