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Beneath Boredom: Learning to Stay When There Is Nowhere to Run
I spent years running from stillness. The moment life became quiet, I reached for something to fill the space. Drugs. Sex. Attention. Fantasy. Chaos. Busyness. It hardly mattered what the distraction was, only that it kept me from being alone with myself for too long. I thought I was avoiding boredom. Looking back, I think…
June 18, 1968 | D E A T H
Fifty-nine years ago my father raped and brutally murdered a woman in front of me. Last night I dreamed of mother, Loretta J. Steele, and my uncle, Harold E. Steele, who were accomplices to my father. In the dream, they were frantic beside my father’s lifeless body in 1968. His violent actions nearly killed him,…
The Kingdom Hidden in Plain Sight
“I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.” – G.K. Chesterton The older I get, the more I suspect that fairy tales were never merely stories for children. They were maps. Maps for navigating a world filled with beauty and terror,…
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