Fiction

• Tolerance The thing that doesn't kill you makes you stronger, which I suppose could be translated to mean every trial that doesn't claim us leaves us prey to an even more excrutiating one. I shudder at the thought having survived heart failure at age four, two bone shattering car accidents and a third that left me…
• Great Wonder I had never been suckered by the myth of age equals wisdom. I realize as I grow less wise that this is the trick of age to keep youth from tearing it to ribbons or simply discarding it like the pile of news clippings we believe will take on some great relevance in years to…