The Time I Got Lost in Greece

I was a high school sophomore. I watched a flying discus strike Principal Wible and slice a quarter of his ear. A doctor stitched that purple piece back together. The rest of his ear remained pink. Wible sued the parents…

Seven years went by. I took LSD every day. It fried my brain. When I quit trying to become an actor, I lost my identity. When I lost my identity, I lost my job. When I lost my job, I…

I was a high school freshman. My English teacher Mrs. Martin made us write an essay on what we wanted to be when we grew up. I wanted to do standup comedy, so I wrote that down. Students stood at…

I heard about my reunion through Facebook. I rolled there in the dead of winter to see Lisa Gehrig. They held it on the hotel rooftop in downtown Los Angeles. Lisa greeted me at a table full of name tags.…

I lost my virginity in the summer of 1998. I was twenty-one. We met on AOL chat before we met at a coffee house. I was a college student, broke on Prozac. Meg was thirty and an auditor for gas stations.…

Anyway, we both moved away to college. Drew went on a full-ride scholarship to USC. I couldn't decide on a major. My plan was fifty years at college. I wanted to take classes for degrees for the next fifty years.…