I was almost expelled from boarding school when I was 16. I broke into the apartment of one of the teachers who stayed on campus. He had confiscated a video I’d rented (long story) and had promised that he would give it back to me on Saturday morning. I knocked on his door after breakfast…
Month: October 2021
Be more reckless with your life
I was 32 and I hated my job. I hated it so much that I would drive to work in the mornings and wish that a bus would drive into me. Hard. I wanted to be injured seriously enough to end up in hospital for a few days but not so seriously that there’d be…
Where to find stories worth telling
I’m a liar. It started in my teens. I would tell the most outlandish lies and expect people to believe them. At one point I told my friends at school that my mother kept cyanide capsules in one of her rings and that we had a 50-metre pool in our backyard. Between the ages of…
This is why you’re lonely
Despite having an extraordinary wife and two children whom I love very much I still sometimes struggle with crippling loneliness. There are times when I feel like there isn’t another being on the planet with whom I can share some corner of who I am. And there are moments when I gaze into face of…