February 2018

Every single day I replay that lesson Spyros taught me: ditch efficiency, grab beauty instead. Stop racing around the ship trying to memorize every corner. Just plant yourself on deck and watch the ocean perform its dance in the fading light.

We all carry an unavoidable portion of loneliness. That's just the deal. The trick is not letting the desperate need to escape that solitude wreck us entirely.

This is the book that introduced me to that towering American writer. Christian Bourgois brought it to France back in '89, and it changed everything.

Doing the right thing and staying alive to feel good about it? Those two don't always line up.

Everyone in Trickum County knows the score: don't mess with old Leonard Moye. Ex-bootlegger living in that cabin deep in the woods. You don't go looking for trouble there.

Find your talent. Hunt it down, cage it up, hand the key to whoever's got the cash, then pat yourself on the back for your courage.

Four people from Lewisham, Southeast London. Working-class neighborhood. None of them thirty yet. Four lives intersecting in ways they never saw coming.