“It’s the most wonderful time of the year With the kids jingle belling And everyone telling you be of good cheer.” Well, it should have been, but just five weeks before Christmas, I received a phone call that a friend of mine had died by...
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When I was in grade school there was a ritual surrounding Valentine’s Day. Sure, kids exchanged Valentines. But, anticipating the later “everyone gets a trophy” mindset, kids were required to bring Valentines for all of their classmates if they participated. Otherwise, the most popular kids...
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If you were looking for a bright spot to end this week of despair, I’m afraid the New Hampshire Democratic Debate didn’t deliver. Nobody landed a knockout punch. So who can rise to the top? Who can deliver us from evil?
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For the best part of 5 years when I was in my 20s, I was in a relationship with a much older man who had a young son, barely 2 years old. The split between his parents had been amicable with the mother still being...
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UPDATE: Kathie Yount recently passed after a hard-fought battle with cancer. This was her first column for us, driven by the cruel injustice of the death of her only son, Dylan. On this desolating occasion, it seems right to remember that Kathie was a fighter...
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After my son’s burial is over and the hurt has supposedly been laid to rest, and most importantly, after everyone thinks the suicidal impulse has cooled in me for at least right now, I am let out at the edge of the road to navigate...
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Did I do it to make myself feel better? Was it simply the sacrifice one makes for monetary reimbursement? Was it a vocation? Did I simply follow in footsteps trod even deeper than one might imagine? Through many steps and an assortment of adventures and...
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