CARE

This month marks seven years since a nearly life-ending event. Heretofore, I have neither written about that experience nor, frankly, spent much time analyzing its import. Was it a game changer? I honestly don’t know. Nevertheless, my decision not to write about being diagnosed with a big (think “large orange”) brain tumor in July of 2010 changed…

Writer Caleb Daniloff’s book, Running Ransom Road – Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time, presents as a force field of positive energy aimed at beating addiction. In his case, mostly to alcohol. But it is also something more. It is about asking essential questions on your choices in life, and answering them. It is…

An article I wrote for an upcoming (November/December) edition of Camping Magazine, “Door Number 3,”  discusses the rather circuitous route of adolescent identity formation, quoting – among others – Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage), the main character in the television series “The Wonder Years.” He once said, “Growing up doesn’t have to be so much a straight line as…

Several developmental prerogatives permeate the everyday adolescent experience: becoming more independent from parents and other adult caregivers; establishing deeper, more meaningful relationships with peers; and establishing an identity across multiple spheres, including personal, social, spiritual, sexual and, ultimately, vocational. Like overexcited game-show contestants vacillating between prizes, young people in the throes of forming an identity…

With this week’s countdown to the beginning of autumn, no doubt more than a few people are mourning the impending loss of warm, sunny days. For many more, such days may seem a distant memory regardless of season…or sun. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), which promotes National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month every September, “Suicidal thoughts, much…