Depression is much more common than most people think. I’m not talking about the occasional bout with the blues. I’m referring to a deep sense of helplessness that lasts for weeks and months at a time. The swimming in...
Monthly Archive:: May 2017
LAW SCHOOL AND GENERAL HOSPITAL
After proposing to Nicole, I decided to attend law school and I was hired to play Justus Ward on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital. January–nine months after proposing to Nicole, I jumped on a plane and headed to...
MY MOTHER’S SUICIDE: THE BIRTH OF THE GRAY LADY
My friend needn’t have been worried. I was not about to go the route of my mother and commit suicide. I wasn’t prepared to leave the same legacy to my loved ones that she left to me. That is...
OPPOSITE DAY AT THE UNITED NATIONS
Proving itself once again to be irrelevant and pedantic, the United Nations, in its infinite superciliousness, voted to appoint the open minded and tolerant Saudi Arabia to the UN Women’s Rights Commission. Go ahead, go back and read that...
LIVING WITH DEPRESSION
Nicole had experienced my bouts with depression, but living with it was something entirely different. I wish I could say that Nicole and I have had a fairy-tale marriage. There are certainly elements of the fairy-tale love affair in...
