A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It

FeetForBrains:

Worthy of the reblog, thanks John Scalzi.

Originally posted on Whatever:

To begin, my mother and father are responsible for me existing at all, so I suppose the first round of “How I made it to where I am” begins there.

I was born at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, CA, and as I understand it I was not the easiest of births, taking on the order of three days to be evicted from the womb. That couldn’t have been comfortable or safe either for my mother or for me, so thanks go to...