Sean McDevitt

Essays

Longer writing and personal updates.

Every week, I sit down and write an essay for my newsletter, Saturday Night Five. Some weeks, the topic finds me. Other weeks, I have to go looking for it. Either way, it ends up here. These are the latest ones, and if you like what you read, you can subscribe and get new essays (and a few surprises) delivered straight to your inbox.

20 Questions

Inspired by the Proust Questionnaire and the Colbert Questionert, this is a list of 20 questions to have a little fun with and share a bit about myself to the world. 1. What is your favorite word? I like …

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Thank You For Being a Friend

My wife and I go to sleep every night to echoes of The Golden Girls theme song. I have seen every episode at least ten to twenty times now. That should embarrass me more than it does. A grown man, drifting off to a …

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Two Hundred and Fifty

My first Fourth of July, I was a few days old, asleep in the bleachers behind a backstop while my Dad played ball. I don’t remember it. My Mom does. She says that’s where I was, swaddled in a blanket on the third-base …

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Older essays

June 2026 (4)
May 2026 (5)
April 2026 (4)
March 2026 (4)
February 2026 (3)
January 2026 (5)
December 2025 (4)
November 2025 (5)
October 2025 (4)
September 2025 (4)
August 2025 (5)
July 2025 (2)