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I'm trying to get healthier because I want to be around for my eight-year-old son for a long time, and because I want to be strong and healthy for a long time. I want to avoid, as much as possible, the shitty last decade both my parents went through. A …

On Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, Anne Lise (Lis) Schofield died from complications of dementia.

Miles Schofield, her husband and father of John Schofield, died November 11, 2014.

Lis leaves her sister Grethe, her son John, John's wife Marlyse, and their two children Heather and James.

The service will be Saturday …

I was called a lot of things in Elementary School -- none of which I liked. I first got a nickname I liked at Parkman Jr. High School, when my friends started calling me "Schof." (Incidentally, the "Sch" in "Schofield" is pronounced like the "sch" in "school." Same with "Schof" -- phonetically …

My father says my mother hallucinates, but I don't think "hallucinate" is the right word. It's not as if you're with her and she sees people who aren't there. Instead, later she remembers things -- sometimes very vividly -- that never happened. At first these were visits from people she knew -- her …

How A Healthy Man Ended Up In The Hospital -- My Mistakes:

I hike and do martial arts training regularly, and consider myself in reasonably good shape. However, on Monday I started an exercise program with a local Crossfit affiliate, Team Crossfit.

This was an intense workout, but I've done intense …

Wouldn't you know it, Words & Pictures runs this snarky strip the week I turn 35. Bastards.

When I was 11 years old, and camping with the Boy Scouts on Catalina Island, I was raped by my Assistant Scoutmaster.

Last night at my group therapy session, I had a shocking realization. (I've often thought that instead of its current title, my poetry "book" should be called "My …