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The Scientist and His Science is my attempt to wrangle the chaos of life into something you can hum—or at least tap your foot to. Each season, I dive into the alchemy of creation, stirring my own struggles and the world’s relentless noise into a cocktail of sound and meaning. It’s a journey where inspiration teases, beauty staggers in late, and harmony sometimes shows up wearing dissonance like a thrift store jacket.

After a fall outside my San Antonio apartment in 2021, I began writing Renegade Prayers—raw dispatches from the waiting room of existence. Join me, Jack Stamps, every Monday at the latest, as I share these reflections from The Invisible Hospital, a place with no walls, no waiting, no medical conglomerate price gouging, and no limits on exploring trauma, art, and spirit.

THE AWFUL SHADOW is a restless memoir of tragedy, perseverance, personal restoration, and the unveiling of one public university’s ugly underbelly. Told through shifting, often colorful and humorous narrative styles and allusions to gothic fantasy video game elements, the author recounts a five-year odyssey through the death of his daughter, a dysfunctional workplace, a prolonged lawsuit settled out of court, crumbled relationships, a near death experience, spiritual transformation, music composition, and more.At the heart of THE AWFUL SHADOW is a slick, university-style textbook called ...