Tag: Path Perilous memoir

• Food Can Kill … or Cure

  A sudden illness sends a young pilgrim to Boston’s Rising Sun clinic, where he encounters a radical idea: food itself may be the body’s first medicine.

  RMDell’Orfano

  March 6, 2026

  Autobio

  Adelle Davis, alternative medicine history, Ann Wigmore, Boston 1968, Boston Back Bay, counterculture health movement, food as medicine, healing foods, health food movement, Hippocrates, live foods, memoir excerpt, natural healing, nutrition reform, Path Perilous memoir, personal pilgrimage, Rising Sun Christianity, sprouted legumes, vegetarian diet, Wheat grass juice

• 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.

  RMDell’Orfano

  December 9, 2025

  Autobio

  1960s college life, Catholic upbringing, coming-of-age, danger zone, deep POV memoir, emotional maturity, fear and instinct, fraternity culture, human vulnerability, men’s inner life, moral tension, Path Perilous memoir, psychological awakening, rites of passage, sexual awakening, spiritual innocence, teenage conscience, youthful desire