There are several ways to explore the mereggie website. You can follow Reggie’s story through the main menu, explore specific topics, search for something you are interested in, or simply follow the stories as they unfold.

If this is your first visit, we suggest starting with Who I Was. This section introduces you to Reggie as a person and begins to tell the story of his life.

Follow Reggie’s Story

The main menu organizes Reggie’s story into major periods and themes in his life.

You can follow the story from his early years through the different stages of his life, his struggles with addiction, the events surrounding his disappearance, the search for him, and what happened afterward.

You do not have to read everything in order. Follow the parts of the story that interest you and explore the connections between them.

Explore by Topic

Many of Reggie’s stories involve subjects that appear at different times in his life.

Topics such as Music, Writing, Family, Friends, Drugs, Addiction, and others are used to connect stories that have something in common.

When you see a topic listed with a story, you can click on it to find other stories about that same subject.

For example, if you are interested in Reggie’s love of music, selecting Music will bring together stories about music from different periods of his life.

This can be a different way of discovering his story than simply following it from beginning to end.

Follow the Timeline

Whenever possible, stories are dated according to when the events described actually occurred.

Some stories have a specific date. Others may only have a month or a year because that is all the information available.

This allows you to follow Reggie’s life chronologically and see how different experiences and events fit together.

A Note About Reggie’s Original Writing

Much of the material on mereggie comes directly from Reggie’s own journals, letters, stories, and other writings.

Where possible, his original wording has been preserved.

To make long passages easier to read on a website, section headings have sometimes been added by the editor. These headings were not written by Reggie. They are simply used to separate subjects, dates, or episodes and make the material easier to follow.

You may also occasionally see editorial comments or clarifications added within Reggie’s writing.

These may appear either:

in italics

or

[in square brackets]

Because the archive contains a large amount of material gathered and edited over many years, the formatting of these editorial notes may not always be completely consistent.

In either case, the purpose is the same: to provide clarification, identify a person or place, explain missing context, or distinguish later editorial information from Reggie’s original words.

Where a comment is substantial enough to require more explanation, it may instead appear as a clearly identified Editor’s Note.

Search the Website

If you are looking for something specific, use the Search function.

You can search for a person’s name, a place, an event, or a particular word or subject.

Search can be especially useful if you remember something from Reggie’s story but don’t remember where you read it.

Follow the Connections

Many of the stories on mereggie are connected to other stories, photographs, documents, and people.

When you finish reading a story, take a moment to look at the links and related material associated with it.

You may discover another part of Reggie’s story that you would not have found by simply following the main menu.

Take Your Time

There is no right or wrong way to explore mereggie.

You can follow Reggie’s life chronologically, explore a particular topic, search for something specific, or simply follow your curiosity from one story to another.

The website contains many years of Reggie’s life, his own writings, memories from family and friends, photographs, documents, and stories that have been added over the years.

We hope that you will take the time to explore beyond the first story you read.

There is much more to Reggie’s story than the way it ended.