That letter I have been meaning to write…
Have one hard cry, if the tears will come. Then stanch the grief, by whatever legal means. Next find your way to be somebody else, the next viable you—a stripped-down […]
Category Archives: Faith & Mental Health
Ramblings of a Depressive mind, pt.2 – Oscars Edition
It’s award season, and so this special Academy Awards edition of “Ramblings of a Depressive Mind.” Art is a wonderful thing. It has been said that labor is how we […]
Of Benedictions and Floors…
Sundays find me now in front of the pulpit whereas once I was behind one. And life, in my best Judy Garland voice, somewhere over the pulpit is altogether unsettling. […]
When My Daddy Lost His Happy
In “Awakenings” (1990), Robin Williams plays Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy physician who’s hired in a Bronx hospital to take care of catatonic patients. His patients survived an epidemic of […]
A Jew and A Gentile walk into a Bar . . . Mitzvah 