Tag: Died

Veronica and I met when I was about 16 years old. She was beautiful, sassy, funny, loud, and the life of the party. She was everything I was not. I was chubby, struggled with body image issues, and had bigger boobs than all my friends. Naturally, that’s the first thing teenage boys saw i...

The cosmic story that gave rise to us is a story rife with creation and destruction. At the start of the hot Big Bang, energetic particles, antiparticles, and quanta of radiation were created. Fractions-of-a-second later, most of the particle-antiparticle pairs had annihilated away. Protons and neut...

The cosmic story that gave rise to us is a story rife with creation and destruction. At the start of the hot Big Bang, energetic particles, antiparticles, and quanta of radiation were created. Fractions-of-a-second later, most of the particle-antiparticle pairs had annihilated away. Protons and neut...

Thailand has everything a man like me could ever want. Great food, fabulous people, and the occasional brush with death just to remind you what it feels like to be alive. I have been there dozens of times over the past sixteen years and each time I go something new happens to me that makes me stop a...

I snatch the car keys and make my way to the front door. It’s the beginning of my senior year and I’m anxious to get to an all-important high school party. Life is good. I grab the door handle to exit our living room. I’m startled by my Mother who’s arriving home. ...

This is the most painful piece of memory I have. It has been penetrating my mind since 1996. I can’t blame this trauma on generational inheritance or narcissistic abuse. This was something fresh, tailor-made for me — something of my doing alone. If I believed in Karma — and I te...