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Two young moms in sweatpants and sneakers, pushing streamlined strollers, jogging in tandem, rounded the corner. "I'm swamped! I need to clean the drapes, Michael's pulling extra shifts this week, and we're trying to get everything together to head south to see the family. I don't get a minute." "I...
awhile back i was reading/commenting on some friends’ myspace blogs, and i came across a blog titled “cutters”. it caught my attention because of my teenage years, so i decided to read it. and i was absolutely DISGUSTED by what i read. the very first sentence, in HUGE, bold print, read...
*IN MEMORY OF MY COUSIN, ANTONIO FELIPE HERNANDEZ, WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2007* DECEMBER 23, 1985-SEPTEMBER 8, 2007 *written 9/14/07* you’re a star in the sky an angel with wings you’re one of the gifts that life often brings you’re a flame in our hearts to guide through the...
. . Hearts Towards Home Blog Talk Radio Show Show July 20 Sunday’s 11:30 pm to 12:30 am Central Time following: Pat Dollards Jihadikiller Hour Show Host Reverend Don is a former Combat Marine who served in the Vietnam War. Don will share his personal experiences with PTSD and how it has affected...
And when I can't sleep I think about the stuff I saw all throughout the day before. Most of the time nothing stands out in my mind in a big enough way to actually share to the world. But this did. She died on the floor of a hospital as people kept ignoring her. Look at how the security guard did not...
Americans are world's top drug users: study 21 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) — Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine. The study, released Monday,...
This was my first Pynchon book. I have always heard lots of great things about this author, so I was eager to read it. Now, I just don't know what to say about it. A story about covert postmen? They were organized and stealthy...like a cross between organized crime and martial arts experts. Maybe...
So many words, thoughts, images are in my head. And I have no idea what to do with them. All floating around, free form, can't take a shape. I want to connect the dots somewhere and walk long the lines they make and get from one place to the next. I want to wake up from this brain fog and emerge the...
Barney Frank is a man of courage. He is sponsoring legislation in Congress to allow for the medical use of marijuana, and to strip the federal government of their power to criminalize the possession and use of pot by adults. In the video below, provided by Tom Gregory at Huffington Post, Congressman...
This morning I awoke to the sounds of Maroon 5 in my head, specifically I Won't Go Home Without you. This one has me stumped. I can think of no one including myself who is going home, let alone going home without someone special. So I remain in that state of wondering if these songs in my head speak...
As a man living with bipolar mood disorder, advocacy for mental health is pretty important to me. I know some of you reading very much agree that mental illness should be released from the stigma that is still unfortunately attached to it. Mental Health America (formerly National Mental Health...
May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. Let's face it.
So today I was telling my friend Jeff about how some plankton look like two men snoodling. He retorted with "pics or it didn't happen" So, Jeff, here are the pics. As you can see, there is a Zooplankton shaped like two phallus's (i know bad use of the sacred apostrophe). This is just more proof that...
Now is the time to get your mind in gear. May 1st marks the beginning of Mental Health Month. It is the prime opportunity for many to get the help they need. Whether it be alcohol rehab, talk therapy, drug rehab, or whatever the need is.. it is all for the good of mental health. I am celebrating on...
My mental health has been the defining issue of my Mississippi Teacher Corps experience. I first began this effort by recapitulating my feelings about the Teacher Corps program, because the prospect of writing retrospectively about my own two years in Mississippi seemed so dauntingly difficult....
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