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The Ghost Upstairs
On Tuesday, I came home late at night to an empty house and heard footsteps coming from my upstairs bedroom…
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When Life Erodes Faith
Maybe it’s different when all you know is hopelessness.
When warlords kidnap your children and force them to murder.
When…
One Month to Live
Someone important died and I never got to meet him.
He was married with three kids and has a fourth…
We Do What We Know
He shot himself.
Right in front of his wife because he learned she was sleeping with someone else. Just a…
The Pursuit of Happiness, Vol. 3
“Happiness comes in small doses, folks. It’s a cigarette or a chocolate chip cookie or a five-second orgasm. That’s it,…
Must Be This Healthy To Ride
Because I have a wicked imagination and scare easily, I thought I might be dying.
An infection in one of…
The Godsmack
He gets this look on his face sometimes. My son who is nearly six.
It looks almost like panic.
I…
The Dead Birds
I have never stumbled on a dead body even though there are more than seven billion people on the planet.…
The Perfect Amount of Death
Austin Kleon starts every day by reading obituaries.
Not to be morbid.
Not to obsess about death.
Not to channel…
The Greatest Generation
After my parents came back to the house to tell me which one of them I was going to live…
