In high school, my very favorite person was named Paige.  She had joined our tight-knit little class pretty late along the way but fit in re...

 In 1978 I was fifteen years old.  It was the first year I ever fully experienced the darkness inside me.  My family fought through an extra...

My wife and I used to argue because she thought my version of her was a lot more optimistic than what she saw in herself.  I think one of th...