An Assisted Suicide

Death demands a relationship with us, whether we accept or deny. You can fear it, run from it, and try to delay it, but there is an inevitability in life that you can always count on. It will end. Morality and Medicine was published in 1954 by Josef Fletcher, illustrating his observations on the impendingContinue reading “An Assisted Suicide”

What Motorcycles Teach About Life

I recently passed my motorcycle certification, gaining that coveted ‘M’ endorsement on my license. Only a handful of my friends and family shared my enthusiasm for roadtrips and winding roads, opting instead to saddle me with statistics and deeply ingrained fears. I can’t blame someone for loving me, even if it’s constricting and consuming, swayingContinue reading “What Motorcycles Teach About Life”

I Wanted to Die: How the Mountains Led Me to the Flight Attendant Lifestyle

I have this distinct memory of being seventeen. It doesn’t have a vivid setting or a catalogued scent, but the restlessness is something I’ll always carry with me. Feeling is a cataclysmic event when you’re seventeen, and my desire to experience the world paralleled an obsession.  I had already been introduced to the woods whileContinue reading “I Wanted to Die: How the Mountains Led Me to the Flight Attendant Lifestyle”