My social media feeds have been spattered with statuses such as this: “People need to wake up! He was JUST a celebrity!” Or this: “Why are so many people grieving over Robin Williams when Mike Brown was shot and killed for NO REASON!!!” And then there’s the complaint that we forget crimes against humanity, like […]
Yesterday I wrote a piece entitled, “Robin Williams: Finding the Silver Lining“. I rarely address celebrity deaths on my blog, but I found Williams’ death affected me more than I expected. This morning I woke up and as I scrolled through my news feed I was surprised to see the details of Robin’s death trumpeted […]
Most celebrity deaths don’t affect me too much. For some reason Robin Williams’ death has. When I first heard of his death I nearly broke into tears, prompting me to immediately reflect on why his passing elicited such an emotional response. As was public knowledge, Williams suffered from severe depression, which caused him to both […]
Have you ever had a horrible dream or premonition that you were going to die? If you were able to answer that question, thankfully the premonition has yet to come true. 99.99% of the time those premonitions don’t come true, unless you’re Mikey Welsh. Mikey Welsh was the former bassist for Weezer (of “The Sweater […]