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This book isn’t here to sell you anything. It exists because I’ve learned something simple and slightly unsettling: the older you get, the more your life starts to look like…

Eddie E. Stephens, Sr. didn’t build a store. He built a standard. It was measured the way he measured everything: fit, fabric, service, and the one thing you can’t fake…

Ron Frazier’s University of Miami baseball camp was the plan. My world made sense because it was physical and predictable. Then a nail through my foot punctured that certainty. One…

Trigger Warning The following chapter includes depictions of a medical emergency, overdose, and the death of a parent, as well as themes of grief, trauma, and family conflict. Some readers…

I started my life at the University of Miami thinking I could be an artist and announced this with the selection my major; Motion Picture Production. This was before “video”…

It was 1997, and I was twenty-seven and walking around like the legal system had personally issued me a backstage pass. One of my first “real” assignments had landed in…

JUNE 18, 2001 – THE EXPERIENCE BEGINS…. It has been a strange night/week/month. I am sitting at the Miami International Airport, about to step into another world. I have no…

Some people collect things. Not me. I curate them. Not just “memorabilia” — real, charged objects that carry energy and memory — artifacts I chose because they meant something. Each…

If you know me, you know I am a Star Wars fan. It is not just a film to me.  It is the classic example of Joseph Campbell’s “Monomyth”, or…

Open letter authored by Eddie Stephens published to the members of Delta Sigma Pi: Every successful business has a mission statement. A common understanding of where the company is going and…

Co-written with Cindy Crawford Stephens:  In my 18 years of practicing law, I have never tried an “at fault” divorce.  I did not truly appreciate the cultural differences between our…

I finally did something I’ve avoided for decades: I faced a fear. It’s a fear that sounds silly when you say it out loud, but it’s real all the same.…

I am a parent of two boys. I am not a perfect parent, but I try very hard. I like to think I lead by example, provide boundaries and allow…

My name is Eddie Stephens, and I’m a divorce attorney. Which… is a sentence that usually earns one of two reactions: either a polite nod that says, “Oh wow, that…

At some point in the middle of my career, I got the itch. Not the “buy a motorcycle and pretend I’m twenty-five” itch. One that whispered; Maybe it’s time to…

Author’s Note / Fiction Disclaimer This post is a work of fiction. The characters, events, dialogue, and situations described in this story are entirely invented for dramatic and satirical effect.…

The first time I met Tracii Guns, I wasn’t walking up like a fan with a Sharpie and a plan. It was one of those nights where the venue lights…

I used to think “core memories” were like museum pieces, sealed behind glass, labeled, safely preserved. The older I get, the more I realize they’re more like live wires. They…