Sofia Castillo

For Kippy Brown · 6d ago

I only met Coach Brown once at a Memphis game in the nineties, but he took time to talk to a kid in the stands about football and life like I was the most important person there. That kindness stayed with me forever. Thinking of Deon and his family.

For Joan Didion · 4 May 2026

I've been rereading her essays this week and I keep finding sentences that feel like they were written just for this moment, for any moment. The clarity in her work, the refusal to lie. I hope we keep listening to her.

For David Baltimore · 3 Oct 2025

Read an interview where he talked about handing his lab over to younger scientists because it was time. Not many people do that with grace. That's a kind of leadership they don't teach.