My Stories

“By chance,” she asked, “do you have a pair of shoes you could give me?”

It was like entering another dimension.

The poker game that changed my life

“You should start walking,” said the night nurse. “You’ll heal faster.”

The world was not the friendly place I had imagined.

'Okay, here it is,' I thought. 'I might as well find out how I feel about this.'

For years, I had been terrified of facing anything difficult.

A young man wearing a green plaid hat with ear flaps greeted me, a bemused smile on his lips, his nose red from the cold.

I am heartbroken at the news of Robin Williams's tragic passing. As a tribute, I am rerunning this post from several years ago. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

I had built a new life, all right, one that gave me the self-respect I’d never had before. I didn’t think of myself as a thief or a liar any more, but I was just lying to myself.