I was leaving the grocery. My car was parked at the end of the row, in the spot farthest from the front entrance of the market. I saw a woman in a bright green shirt standing near the curb at the edge of the lot. She was looking at nothing in particular and seemed indecisive …
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.” Sometimes I actually hear the click of it snapping into place. When, in moment of clarity, a thing that I’ve known intellectually suddenly becomes vast understanding. The sound accompanies the proverbial light bulb, incandescent over my head, powered by a surge of deep and profound …
“And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.” Acts9:18 KJV Medieval European maps often grew outward from the Mediterranean Sea, which they believed was the centre of the Earth. At the edges of the known world was the great unknown, terra incognita, and here the maps were often illustrated with fantastical …
A short piece from Chapter 3 from the upcoming And There Was Light; How MDMA Saved My Life — “The job of parents is to model. Modeling includes how to be a man or woman; how to relate intimately to another person; how to acknowledge and express emotions; how to fight fairly; how to have physical, …
This is the prologue to my forthcoming book, And There Was Light: How MDMA Saved My Life — I raised the barrel of the gun to my forehead, aimed it so that the bullet would damage as much brain matter as possible, and pulled the trigger. Drunk and crying in the dark room I was …
Today, 18 October 2016, is my second Second Birthday. Yes, that’s correct, Second Birthday. Two years ago today everything changed for me and I started down a new, healthy, and happy path that I plan to follow all the way to the end. I was born again into a new life and was given a …
“I found god in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely”-Ntozake Shange This time, the temple in the woods was familiar, a place of refuge and peace to come home to. Beneath the skylight piercing the apex of the dome was safety, community, acceptance, and love. I was excited to swim once more in …
When you learn that a parent has died, there is supposed to be a sense of loss and remembering the good times. There should be nostalgia, smiles through tears, laughter at silly things that happened when you were small. Sadly, this was not so for me. I learned last night that my father shuffled off …
There are tectonic moments in a life when the Earth beneath our feet shakes and shifts and the world upends itself in a convulsion of change and realignment. The path, once so clearly unrolled before us, fractures into rubble, falls into a yawning, steaming chasm, and a new, open way appears in another direction. Do you …
