So sang Jim Morrison in the Doors’ song, Roadhouse Blues. Prescient? Perhaps, but in the same song, he also sang “Save our city, save our city Right now”. While some of the sturm and drang of the Doors’ music could be over the top, (disclaimer: I’m a fan), it reflected the zeitgeist of the time. […]
When people talk about someone having baggage, they’re usually referring to those issues that need to be dealt with. It’s not unusual, when drilling down into them, to discover they’re all related. Some of that is true for the middle-aged protagonist of Eleven Little Deaths, one Jacob Will. But in his case, it’s a grand […]
Truer words have never been spoken. They’re especially poignant as the trip middle-aged Jacob Will was embarking upon was a solo endeavor. And it would be safe to say, Jacob did not love himself. This journey was also laced with no small amount of irony as what precipitated it was the suicide of Jacob’s best […]
Not a thing until Jacob Will discovers it for the first time in his middle-aged life. The funny thing was he wasn’t even looking, much less considering it. It took the death of his friend and the request to commit eleven little deaths of his own to find what he’d been missing. It turned out […]
A hero was not how Jacob Will would ever describe himself. Growing up, he didn’t have the heroes young boys normally had. Since sports were not a thing he was interested in, it didn’t matter what records were set by athletes, they held no attraction. Likewise movie stars, though he did, as most boys at […]
