Category: Autobio
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The Wrong Career
Even back in 1963, sitting in that lecture hall, I had felt a similar confusion—and quietly recognized that I had entered the wrong room. I just didn’t yet know why.
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Danger Zone
College in the early 1960s was a collision of ideals and crude impulses, especially for a young man like me who carried a tender conscience into an era of loosening morals.
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Plato’s Cave Shadows
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the shadows on the wall represent illusions and the false reality that people perceive as truth.
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Fraternity Hell Week
Hell Week teaches that important social lesson, unless the ritual turns cruel and deadly.
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The Beast Within
My father’s hand had steered me toward truth, but no strap could ward off what awaited me in adolescence. Now the enemy was not dishonesty—it was my body itself, turning strange, unpredictable, and frightening.
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The Lagoon,Leeches, and the Law
Two brothers defy a No Swimming sign, plunging into a hidden lagoon—and into a lesson about fear, folly, and the leeches that never let go.
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The Masquerade of Life
All the world’s a masquerade, where one man in his time plays many parts, and I had learned how to slip past its stopgates unnoticed.
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Foreshadowed Arc
The Upham House offered a glimpse of my life’s quest, a foreshadowing of the perilous path I faced—in that daunting frontier of fear, faith, and unseen mystery mirrored in its weary walls.
THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 