Fashion Tips and Medical Advice

Off script

My mother's driving and death, Ford engines, hospital car parking, and everlasting pain in 157 words.

There should be nothing here I don't remember

Every single memory is real, and everything is gone. And kids can no longer buy cigarettes.

Who knew?

The preparation for the inevitable end was no preparation at all for the bottomless sadness we all experienced and continue to experience. 

Things I am afraid to write about

Decades of fear. Yes, I am afraid to write about that. Who wouldn't be? 

Saved

Running, investing, and saving (myself). 

Chopped salad

A person doing nothing who needs to look like he's doing something is well advised to cook.

The world's tenth-fastest marathon runner

I can find no record of this. 

You can't have it all

You can't have it all, but what kind of lunatic would want it all, anyway?

If they chop open my body

If they chop open my body, they'll see things no one ever should about another person.

A course of life

It was as if my mind was protecting me. I considered again the incredible human capacity for straightforward denial as a form of self-defense.