On February 12th, 1994, I was 17 years old and living in a halfway house in Opelousas, Louisiana, when I decided to do something different. I wasn’t deciding to stay sober for the rest of my life; I didn’t even think I had five years in the future as a certainty. The day before, I […]
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. […]
Meditation for June 1st, 2016 Dear Depressed Person, I hope this letter finds you well, but probably not. Maybe you just smiled at someone and said you were doing great and thanks for asking. Maybe you asked them how’re they were doing and they told you. Maybe you pretended to listen while you just wished […]