Writing

I've been doing that since the late 'seventies.

There's a lot of demons hiding out in those files.

As a young adult I was a magnet for trouble and had a few partners in crime, including a sort-of girlfriend. I broke up with her by jumping out of her moving car. That was after she assaulted a guy in San Francisco. It was that kind of relationship.

Somewhere around 1984 I started to get my head together and decided I'd try to live a normal life and by 1986 I'd deleted most of the crazy stuff from my files, especially references to my ex.

I may or may not have been paranoid at the time that the feds were going to seize my computers and ruin our lives. Paranoia is sometimes a component of my mental illness.

Looking back, most of the dumpster diving mischief I got into was pretty mild and I sometimes wish I still had those files. What was painful then isn't so painful now and I'm sort of curious about what was going on in my head at the time.