Thad Ziolkowski is a poet, novelist, and memoirist who has written a fascinating book about surfing and addiction called The Drop. He’s no stranger to difficult themes, and I have a feature in the current issue of The Surfers Journal (issue 34.2) that explores not just trauma and surfing, not just Somalia and my father’s suicide, but also the Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation, a fabulous group in the Los Angeles South Bay that has pioneered ocean therapy in the U.S.

I knew Jimmy in high school; Thad and I have both written about the Foundation. So we talk about the water that keeps us afloat.

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The Drop, by Thad Ziolkowski

On a Wave, by Thad Ziolkowski

“Blue Antidote,” by Michael Scott Moore, in Issue 34.2 of The Surfers Journal — not online, but the whole issue is terrific

The Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation (JMMF)

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