The $100 loan and other distinctions
In 1998 I needed a major surgery. I had been ill for almost a year then. No insurance, no money, no family.
I had a magazine that was just sitting there: I wasn’t well enough to actually do the work and publish new issues. My staff long gone, I was silently dying. I was losing blood at an alarming rate, and my mind was going foggier by the day.