A letter to the best friend of someone with depression

It can’t be easy to be friends with us. To have found your ‘person’, your most trusted and honest confidant and to always wonder and perhaps wait for the day we don’t answer your phone call, the door, your text. To watch for those inexplicable moments when in mid-laugh the life begins to drain from…

Fairy tales and real life.

“The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it…some stories just don’t have a happy ending.” It is a made up tale. It is a tale more sensational than Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. It trumps the Loch Ness monster,…

Strength, value and worth.

My question/statement for you for your blog is this..during your lowest of all moments, during the worst of your days, during the worst of all the worst you’ve gotten through this year, previous years, etc. how does your brain still put you down? Because most of us have gone through bad times, bad moments, bad…

This is not the life I imagined. Not complaining, just a fact.

I think it is a fair thing to say that there are two things I strongly dislike in the world: 1) big changes, 2) big uncertainty. I can handle the small changes and uncertainties – but when they are looming unknowns or gravitational changes I am not amused. So it is ironic that the job…

January 1, 2014

Seems to me we were just celebrating the millennium weren’t we? The world was going to end. Now, what? seven or eight projected apocalypses later we find ourselves almost halfway through the second decade of the millennium. I actually managed to stay up until midnight this year, that was a feat (for more on that…

Perspectives from a powerless Christmas eve

Nothing gives you perspective, or time to think, than an ice storm and no power. I’m very thankful that after about 8 hours of no power yesterday I got mine back, my mom’s house has been out since 3pm yesterday, they are projected to get power back around 11pm tonight. Many folks will not have…

‘Tis the season for much pain for some, much joy for many, and the possibility of peace and understanding for all.

It has been a while since I’ve blogged, for no particular reason other than that I’ve just been too tired when the day is done and the last thing I wanted to do is reflect on anything else except my pillow and the appearance of the inside of my eyelids. Earlier this week though, on…

Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between.

“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.” ~ Dalai Lama I’m not sure where in the history of the world so many people lost sight of what they have to be grateful for. You would think in a world where so many people around us are subjected to such needless…