Your Whole Life is an Eight-Billion-to-One-Shot

Rocky: His whole life was a million-to-one shot. A photograph of Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa) with those very words, hang on the wall directly in front of my bed. It is the first thing – almost always the first thing, anyway – I look at each morning. Though I do not know much about the … Continue reading

Happy Birthday.

“Happy birthday,” as my dear childhood friend, Frosty the Snowman, would say emphatically each time he was brought back to life or, in other words, commenced a new journey. I begin this blog quoting Frosty as a metaphor to the commencement of my journey. To something new, scary, and uncertain. A journey I might as … Continue reading