Hey, framily. Life is a lot right now, isn’t it? If you’re feeling that heaviness, you’re not alone. The news has been hard this week, especially for those of us with depression and anxiety and mental illness in our medical histories. People like me. People like a lot of my friends. Maybe even people like you….
suicide prevention
Hello From the Other Side
Hello. It’s me. I was wondering if after all this time you’d like to read. Everything. About me… Okay, that’s as far as I got after spending 10 minutes trying to change the lyrics on the last line and then realizing that the part about healing and being healed was pretty accurate and then I…
Be The Light
Some of you know that one of my freelance jobs is as an entertainment news writer. By now you’ve probably heard that Robin Williams died yesterday. He took his own life following a serious and prolonged battle with depression. When my professional and personal worlds collide like this, it’s hard for me not to stand…
May His Memory Be Eternal
It was my second Mother’s Day. After putting Joshua to bed, I checked my phone and saw a message that changed my life. “Have you heard about __________?” No, no I hadn’t heard the news. So I did what any teacher does. I looked him up on Facebook. The posts on his wall painted the…