I’ve made embarrassing mistakes.

Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

A typical twenty-four hours in the life of an author: I woke up at 2:00 a.m. I didn’t have a man’s hands gently nudging my body. There wasn’t even soft snores to explain my wakefulness. It was a woman! She haunts me first by day, now by night. When I’m not writing my...

I don’t mind the pebbles underneath my body. They’re small and don’t hurt my skin at all. I mind the smells around me though. There are two people on the ground, close by. The metallic smell of blood and urine involuntarily released from one of them fills my nasal...