The Kingdom of Heaven My earliest memories are tied to two powerful mythologies that have governed my life. The first of these is Star Wars. I remember being bundled up in the back of a station wagon with a Tupperware bowl of air-popped popcorn in my footie pj’s at the drive-in theater outside of Binghamton,...
“I wish I could help him” – Chapter 1
Content Warning: this post contains frank descriptions of sexual violence and child abuse. I have included these as they are part of my personal history, and important to the discussion at hand. Chapter 1: Start at the beginning… Texas was mine, but I wasn’t sure I was going to live until morning to enjoy it....
“I wish I could help him” – Introduction
I was looking at a fallen giant. My father and I were standing in an upstairs bedroom of a two story home in the suburbs of New Jersey, and what we were struggling to process was the sight of a man who had loomed so large in our lives, almost to a position beyond legend,...