Courtenay Harris Bond

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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.

6 years ago

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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.

6 years ago

Photo courtesy Courtney Harris Bond (Author's budding twin musicians)

Philly Parenting

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 ...

7 years ago

Paul Cherashore of the Philadelphia Overdose Prevention Initiative holds a dose of naloxone, an antidote for opioid overdoses. (Courtenay Harris Bond)

‘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.

7 years ago

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Philly Parenting

When Mother’s Day is a bust

I awoke Mother’s Day to a sparkling spring morning, feeling generous and giving just like a good mother should. I glanced at ...

7 years ago

A view of the 'Badlands' of Kensington, Philadelphia. (Courtenay harris Bond)

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 ...

7 years ago

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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 ...

7 years ago

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Philly Parenting

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 ...

7 years ago

The author is shown with her aunt Lolly in the mid-'90s. (Courtesy of Courtenay Harris-Bond)

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 ...

7 years ago

Author's daughter. (Photo courtesy of Courtenay Harris Bond)

Philly Parenting

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 ...

7 years ago

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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 ...

7 years ago

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Philly Parenting

Confronting the conflicts of cleaning out the garage

This month we cleaned out our garage—a gargantuan chore that involved the whole family and threatened to send a rift through ...

7 years ago

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