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As life’s curveballs came harder & faster throughout life’s progression, friends would line-up to assure me they’d “always be there.” …… and yet, come “D-Day,” phone lines sat silent, and parental influence was null & void entirely. Hell, if anything, Mom was as “suddenly stricken” by her husband “magically dropping dead” as everyone…

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At the age of thirteen, I watched a parent die right in front of me. A decades later, I had no idea the other one would follow suit so brutally… or that I’d be wandering the world so vulnerably for as long, thereafter. Only recently has my condition seen any…

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Somehow, though friends all throughout life preached the gospel of “playing” these women, I didn’t get it. “Be a player, bro,” they’d say. Right… if I stick to playing Video Games, they won’t eventually need Child Support checks.

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As a child, I’d often think about good times I’d had in hindsight. and recall exactly what about them was good. So many of my days would end with nights where I laid and reflected… why did my day go that way? What did I do? Did I do anything…

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During my youth, realizations that my life was more complicated than that of others came quickly. It wasn’t long before I realized that my own parents stayed up way too late…