Sorry, I Don’t Get It That’s what someone wrote in the comments. Sorry I don’t get it. And honestly? That’s a completely fair thing to say. The 3AM Questions list is strange. It doesn’t have a thesis. It doesn’t offer…
“Jesus Dude!” The guy in red sidestepped to the left. But The Crusader hadn’t lunged at him; he fell to the right, into the industrial-strength foliage growing on the curb. His makeshift cross suffered no damage. I should have borrowed…
I was in a crowd. We were being herded like sheep. Maybe not. Maybe sheep got better treatment. I remember military intake with a clarity I wish I had for the rest of my life. Funny how the moments that…
PODCAST https://mattlr.com/ A long time ago, on a Saturday, we ended up in the tower cab of a tiny regional airport on the outskirts of town. Tiny enough that one young woman ran the entire tower alone. Approach, takeoff, landing,…
Have you ever contemplated suicide? Not planned it, not obsessed over it, but contemplated it? Do you often label yourself as “lost,” or “broken?” How “lonely” are you? Sunday mornings, do they become dreaded signposts, informing you that anxiety will…
Have you ever felt like throwing a chair across the room? In that moment when anger becomes more than data, more than a signal, what do you do? Have you ever visualized that movie-moment? Your palms are sweating. Across the…