DIY inventions

🌊 Chapter 4: Boating on the Mississippi RiverBoating became a big hobby once I had free time during the summer […]

It started with a whisper over a beer. My buddy, the owner of the sports bar I’d been hanging around

I was 26 years old and restless. The kind of restless that comes from knowing you’ve got the skills but

Most nights, you’d find me in the bars—neon haze, jukebox humming, and the low hum of bets being settled. I

From twenty on, the hustle matured into a lifestyle. I was taking bets, selling weed, playing ball, boating on the

At sixteen, I landed a job at a lumber company working as a stockboy. It wasn’t glamorous, but it was

By fourteen, the rules had changed—or maybe I’d just stopped pretending they existed. I was in my last year of

By the time I hit my early teens, the line between mischief and hustle had already blurred. We weren’t just

Chapter 12: By 8 a Petty Thief, By 28 a Full-Out GangsterI was stealing small things by the time I

It’s only a matter of time before it all goes bad. You know that going in. The odds are stacked