On my 18th birthday, I was home all day, in a Philadelphia suburb, trying to determine my very uncertain future. Graduating from high school was supposed to be a defining moment of my life, but col…| Sam's Online Journal
So, I met Michael J. Fox this weekend. To put that into perspective, I’ll have to take you back to 1988, when I saw Back to the Future for the first time. From the start of the film, the soar…| Sam's Online Journal
The opening acts were done. The crowd was raucous. The energy was building, and I was there, in the middle of it all. I can’t describe how amazing this Taylor Swift show was, but I can tell y…| Sam's Online Journal
Why do I keep letting this date hypnotize me? It’s been so long, but I can’t just let it pass by without remembering. You know how it is, how some dates are just seared into your brain?…| Sam's Online Journal
Wow. I am still trying to process what I just saw. I was pulled up at an intersection, waiting my turn… to turn… when two cars turned from the merge lane, one behind the other. Apparently the guy i…| Sam's Online Journal
“You have a visitor,” the candy stripe girl said. Her nametag told Dale that her name was Candy, which seemed somehow fitting. He nodded to her, a gesture to open the door, which she did, before sl…| Sam's Online Journal
Will this ever be over? I guess, on some level, it has to end, right? At least common sense tells me so. The Spanish Flu ended. The yellow fever epidemic ended. Pretty much every other epidemic/pan…| Sam's Online Journal
I’m a big believer in questioning things. Why am I doing this? Why am I going there? What’s the benefit from spending my time in these ways? I think I’m this way because of how it…| Sam's Online Journal
“How come you always write such depressing characters?” someone asked me once. They always ask this, because more than half of my characters have somehow decided to be depressing. I don…| Sam's Online Journal
I remember 15, like a tickling in my ribs that I just can’t reach, though I feel it rather acutely. I saw a kid today, couldn’t have been more than 15. He was getting in the passenger s…| Sam's Online Journal
