A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, some people say. So is a little success. When I had my first success, as a writer, I told my own little voice to be quiet. I thought the people in my new profession must know what it takes to keep being successful.
Do you remember being eighteen? If not, because you haven’t hit the number yet, can you imagine being eighteen? Take it from me, at that age you never think you’re being reckless. You say you’re just livin’ in the moment–goin’ with the feeling. You feel something
A ‘Yooper’? I didn’t know what it meant back in Bucharest. I didn’t know a lot of things about America before I touched down in Upper Michigan–all the way from Romania. My name is Sorina and I wanted to come to America so bad, I agreed to
Software engineers are everywhere these days, and I am one. My name is Dalton. My everywhere in the story was Ann Arbor, Michigan, about fourteen years ago. In Weightlessness, I set a new standard for being dumped by interesting women. I was such an easy mark back then, but I
If you ride in my cab in Rome, you get Brooklyn savvy, I don’t charge extra for it. I’m Luigi, born and bred in Brooklyn, now chauffeuring tourists in Rome, Italy. You can spot my cab by the happy little bumblebee on the aerial. So I picked up
The waterfall, in case you’re wondering, is in Buhl, Idaho. It saved my life. Tom Butler here, normal guy, irrigation equipment salesman from Sioux City, Iowa. Could I have a love story worth telling, one worth reading too? It’s one ‘too hot not to cool down’. All you
