One time when I was fourteen or fifteen I took a mixture of drugs: marijuana, acid, mushrooms, morning glory seeds, some other herbal “legal” seed, and a disc of mescaline. I was out late, probably snuck out of my house, and was smoking cigarettes with some friends at Dunkin Donuts which is now a Starbucks. […]
Yesterday was my 5-year anniversary of being diagnosed with cancer. No one wrote on my Facebook wall, called, or sent me any presents. In my life, this anniversary has as much to do with who I am as my birthday, my sobriety date, and my wedding anniversary. It’s a bittersweet date. I was one kind […]
I’m not sure how old I was, my brother was there, my parents told me I was adopted. All they knew was that my biological father was Sicilian. Sicily became to be this place of magic and mystery to me. Sicilian customs, such as Catholicism and the Mafia, we’re attractive to me. Before I go […]
“How did it make you feel?” She asked as we barreled down Larch Mountain in neutral. The question was a strange one. She was asking how I felt about the view from atop of Larch Mountain where you can see almost 360 degrees around you and see nothing but mountains, hills and trees and sometimes […]
Sometimes the reality of my life becomes difficult and almost unbearable, so I think I need to escape. Sometimes I want to drop everything and just walk away. Leave my possessions, my friends and family and my job and head for the sunset. Other times I just want to sit down and escape from within […]
It has been a while since I had last reported of my whereabouts both physically and in mind, but I assure you that I am in tip-top form and was just traveling sans computer for the last week. I was in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz and Big Sur. It was an amazing trip, thank […]
My two friends John Turner & Jake Estes decided to hop a train to San Francisco during their spring break. I asked them to send me a story of their adventures. What I got was an epic exploit almost too dark and too intense to publish, but I decided to go ahead just for […]