Getting Through Early Adulthood

Finding balance inside and outside the game

In one of his short stories, novelist Haruki Murakami characterized a person’s twenties as a lonely time.

I think of me between the ages of 16 and 27. It certainly was a confusing decade-plus between the end of 10th grade and when I met Stephanie (and then started working for the Maple Leafs).

My twenties lacked for sustainable relationships, whether pers…