"It was 2:00 in the morning and I was just settling into falling asleep with my girlfriend when I heard the balcony door that opened into the living room slide open.  My...

California raised cocaine addict describes his struggles overcoming his addiction and how surfing saved his life.

I read a book in high school in 2011 called ‘Cryptonomicon’, which was, unknowingly, the first step towards changing my life.  It was all about cryptocurrency before cryptocurrency was a thing -...

I was selling so much weight and doing so many drugs that my life began to spin widely out of control.  Everything was completely fucked.  I had become an erratic lunatic, a...

If I’m being honest, I don’t even know how I graduated high school, let alone got into college.  I had a 1.4 GPA my senior year and I never went to class. ...

I grew up in Lawrence Massachusetts, the most corrupt and Heroin ridden city in America.  It wasn’t always like this though.  In the 20s it was one of the richest cities in...

I was 5 when I knew I wasn’t ‘normal’ - whatever the fuck that means.  My mom was driving me to school and I was sitting in the back of the car when I innocently asked her, “Hey mom, why aren’t I a boy?”  She didn’t have an answer for me, but several years later she admitted to me that after she dropped me off at school that day, she burst into tears.  She knew in her soul, at that moment, I wasn’t going to have a normal life...

My father left me and my mother when I was 6 months old.  I never saw him again after that.  Throughout most of my early years, my mother was in an extremely...