Archive for April 2010

Peas In A Pod

April 30, 2010

If You Are Feeling Suicidal Or You Need To Talk Call The National Lifeline 1-800 273-8255 While Dempsey Rice shared her story with us about her documentary: Daughter of Suicide, I took time off from the blog to write an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times, which I have just submitted. I wrote it [...]

Dempsey Rice – Daughter Of Suicide

April 28, 2010

If You Are Feeling Suicidal Or Need To Talk Call The National Lifeline 1-800- 273-8255 I am so pleased to have Dempsey Rice start our “Share Your Story” series, and I hope that more of you will follow. In the meantime, as you will see, Dempsey is working on the wonderful project of putting together [...]

Hindsight Is A Different Story

April 27, 2010

If You Are Feeling Suicidal Or If You Need To Talk Call The National Lifeline 1-800- 273-8255 Robert has had a lingering cough since his strep throat and tonsillitis episode a couple of weeks ago, and yesterday I took him to the doctor. The last time I had seen Dr. Lubell, or that I’d been [...]

Share Your Story

April 26, 2010

If You Are Feeling Suicidal Or If You Need To Talk Please Call The National Helpline 1-800-273-8255 As time goes on, I think of this blog more and more, as a community blog. It started out as my journal. I was walking in the park one early September morning, smiling until my face hurt. I [...]

The Birth Of A Movement

April 24, 2010

If You Are Feeling Suicidal, Or If You Need To Talk, Please Call The National Helpline 1-800-273-8255 I hadn’t left the house for a few days, and when my friend Terry called suggesting we go for a walk, I agreed. That’s right, I didn’t say yes, I agreed. “Not today though,” I said. “Can we [...]

Rustling In The Wind

April 23, 2010

And here we are, another day has dawned. The sun is high in the sky. The transformation from deep winter to almost summer could not have been more drastic. It happens every year I know, yet, this year, I don’t know how to feel about all the leaves that have suddenly sprouted and covered all [...]

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

April 22, 2010

A picture is worth a thousand words, or so the saying goes. If I had a picture of myself this morning, and were I willing to post it, you’d see me puffy eyed and with red blotches around my nose. Then you would know, without my having to tell you, that I have been crying [...]

From One of Andrew’s High School Teachers

April 21, 2010

The hundreds of cards and letters we received when Andrew died, had been sitting in bundles in a box in the living room, waiting for me to “tackle” them. When they first started arriving, within a day or two of Andrew’s death, I read every single one. Soon though, I became so overwhelmed by the [...]

Suicide Awareness & Prevention Fair

April 20, 2010

WE NEED YOU! Please sign up to help with the: Get Your Wellness On! Fair. Even if you don’t live in New York, you can still help. In fact, just to give you an example, so far, we have friends helping from Hawaii, New Zealand, Oregon, Oklahoma & San Francisco. You can contact people, organizations…get [...]

Transformation

April 19, 2010

Often I look back, well beyond November 3, at November 2 and October 31. I go over those days that I remember well, even though months have passed. I remember them accurately because they stand in stark contrast to November 3, and thereafter. Watching something bloom, whether a flower or well-cooked pasta, fascinates me. What [...]


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