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If I lose my chronic depression, how much of myself will go with it?
Until now, I have had little hope that my depression would ever really go away.
1 year ago
Suicide prevention is everyone’s job
More people die by suicide than by motor vehicle crashes. And if you think you are immune, you are not.
1 year ago
I may be impatient, but — are you done reading this yet?
I have trouble waiting for anything: a paycheck, the weekend, a manicure. Imagine my chagrin when my children, from birth, exhibited the same impatience that has tortured me.
2 years ago
Learning to love the “Star Wars” theme
One of the wonderful things about having children is that they introduce you to new experiences – to worlds you never inhabited in your ...
2 years ago
‘People die of stigma. They don’t die from heroin.’
Paul Yabor, 55, an activist in the HIV/AIDs and harm reduction communities who suffered from a substance use disorder himself, died last week Tuesday of a drug overdose.
2 years ago
I awoke Mother’s Day to a sparkling spring morning, feeling generous and giving just like a good mother should. I glanced at ...
2 years ago
Under the bridge, a world of pain not so far from any of us
The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...
2 years ago
This is what depression feels like
I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a solitary candle about to blow out at any moment. At the same ...
2 years ago
A mother’s saga of morning sickness
I have never felt worse than I did during my pregnancies. Just six weeks into finding out I was carrying twins, soon after the fir ...
2 years ago
Finding an extra grandma before it was too late
After meeting Lolly, I suddenly understood that I had a third grandmother — still a sparkplug — someone I may have never really known ...
2 years ago
Seven ways to get real about traveling with kids
There was the time we kept our three children up until 1 a.m. before flying from Philadelphia to Seattle, hoping that they would sleep on ...
2 years ago
How often have I actually been altruistic?
How often had I actually been altruistic, I recently wondered, recalling a day in the mid-1990s when, still in my naïve 20s, I ...
2 years ago