The author, on a boat with his son, on the River Thames, in 2011

How I Integrated My Trauma

and why knights should tame dragons

The little boy stepped onto the boat with one foot while he left the other foot on the muddy bank. While the adults were distracted, the boat started to move away from the shore. A sense of panic developed in the boy as the accident slowly unfolded.

Little kids don’t have strong adductor muscles, apparently, nor the ability to…