Personal essays and testimony from the author of the Good Bad Person and Plan X series — on survival, darkness, and the philosophy of doing good without being good.
This is not a content calendar. It's a memoir, written as it's lived, in the order things surface rather than the order they happened — by a life that has beaten the odds more times than it should have, and isn't done yet.
Michael Bothrops
Born of Asper. Built by Fire.
Hell, Except for One Thing
I've made peace with going to hell. Except for one promise I made to the animals I've lost — and I'm not sure I can keep it.
No One Can Take What I’ve Lived From Me
Everything you've lived — good and bad — is yours, permanently, and no one can take it from you. Here's the accounting.
The Year Lisbon and I Were Together
The only twelve months I ever lived entirely for myself — walking Lisbon alone, before everything that came after.