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The Road to Athens Journal

The Road to Athens Journal

Explore the themes and world behind The Road to Athens: coming of age after eighteen, college life in 1988, friendship, accountability, redemption, and second chances.

September 30, 2026

Crossroads

A crossroads is not only a place where roads divide. It is the moment when continuing as we have becomes a choice we can no longer pretend not to be making. Until...

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September 29, 2026

The Choice

Every choice closes a door. Even the right decision asks us to leave something behind: another possibility, another version of the future, another self we might have become. Perhaps that is why...

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September 28, 2026

The Alarm Within

Sometimes the body knows before the mind has found the words. A tightening in the chest. A restless night. The sudden urge to leave a room that appears perfectly safe. Nothing visible...

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September 27, 2026

Not Alone

Loneliness does not always look like being alone. It can sit at a crowded table, answer every message, and smile at the right moments. It can know many people and still feel...

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September 26, 2026

Compassion

Compassion begins with the decision to look again. Our first glance is often too quick. We see the sharp reply, the missed promise, the person moving too slowly in front of us....

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September 25, 2026

Presence

Most of us are rarely where we are. The body sits at the table while the mind replays yesterday. We walk through the afternoon rehearsing a conversation that may never happen. Someone...

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September 24, 2026

Beyond the Wreckage

For a while, the wreckage is all we can see. Broken plans. Broken trust. The scattered remains of a future we had already begun to inhabit in our minds. We walk through...

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