I Was Born on the Thumb of a Hitchhiker’s Curse

I Was Born on the Thumb of a Hitchhiker’s Curse

An occasionally, mostly true tale.  When my parents named me after a hitchhiker they picked up in a blizzard somewhere between Wyoming and Nebraska, I don’t believe they had the intention that I become a hitchhiker myself. But that’s what happened. I became someone...
Your story is the most important story you know.

Your story is the most important story you know.

The year I was born was the same year The Rolling Stones released “Exile On Main Street”. I emerged into the world at a hospital in Bemidji, Minnesota. They told my mom I was dead when I was born. Discovering I was alive, my parents named me after a...