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72Teen Suicide Is Too Sensitive For Advertisers?
Suicide is a fact of life. It happens daily, and it happens by various means of escape. It is important that we face the crisis of suicide, and begin to talk openly about the facts.
0 comments75Murder~Suicide
Murder-Suicides have deeper roots, and happen more often than we could begin to imagine. And as an outsider looking in, it's a challenge for this author to remain non-judgmental and unbiased. The lesson is there, as I struggle to make sense of this too familiar story.
4 comments56Can You Tell Me, What Is Love?
Love is not controlling. Love is not abusive. Love is not ownership. Love is not a game to be played. Love is not a challenge to overcome. Love is freedom to be who we are in a relationship built on mutual respect.
2 comments52Redefining Selfish
It's important to learn to take care of yourself, before you take care of others.
1 comment51Not Writer's Block; Writer's Cramp!
Cleverness is only good so far as it can take you. Authentic writing, memoir and biography and nonfiction works seem to me to be a higher class of writing than is ad-copy.
2 comments62For Believers In Angels
Angels and patrons mingled and brought enlightenment to this new age gift store proprietor. I do believe in angels! Some walk the Earth disguised as humans!
4 comments56Suicides Among American Adolescents
Suicides Among American Adolescents My son committed suicide at the age of 21, following an altercation with his allegedly cheating girlfriend. With the gun blast that took his life, the life of his loved-ones was also blown apart. He had much to...
0 comments73Suicide Awareness & Prevention
Suicide is a crucial matter that does not disappear just by pretending it isn't a real risk. Adolescent suicide statistics are particularly horrifying. Awareness and intervention are the ways to prevention of adolescent suicide, or of any suicide for that matter.
1 comment64Surviving Suicide
Surviving the loss of a child calls upon a strength that I was unaware of, until the time came when my son committed suicide. Death brings many questions, and suicide brings even more. Writing, Blessings in the Mire, (my memoir) is the way I survived. I can only offer the book to you as a healing instrument to help guide you thru the darkness and back out into the light.
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45Blessings In The Mire, by Jan Deelstra
Blessings in the Mire: A True Story of Miracles & Recollections, by Jan Deelstra is a candid and often brutally honest account of one woman's struggle to survive. Casting aside social mores and beliefs learned in childhood, Deelstra seeks her own truth, "even in the most nefarious" conditions. A page-turner autobiography memoir.
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