I see before me now a glimpse of my life in the late 1980s. I see myself as I was then: dark-eyed with a full head of brown hair; grinning like a goober; my whole body splayed out to encompass my already massive personality; clad in suspenders, a striped polo shirt, khakis, and sneakers, and […]
The following is a letter composed to my younger self as I was ten or so years ago, in my late twenties. I was at that time, and had been for a while, a militant atheist and a wastrel squandering my potential. This letter’s aggressive tone should be considered in light of it being written […]
“And thou, most kind and gentle Death, Waiting to hush our final breath,…Thou leadest home the child of God, As Christ before that way hath trod.” -from “All Creatures of Our God and King,” by St. Francis of Assisi Between the ages of twelve and thirty-one, I spent most of my days in an agonizing trek through […]
The Empowered Loser 