When I work with younger people, I’ll usually give them my cell number so they can text me whenever they want. Texting is just so much less stressful and easier for those of us who grew up with cell phones, and it seems to be a comfort for the families when they know they can […]
Another school shooting. Ten people died, nine students. This is the 22nd school shooting since the beginning of 2018. The 22nd in just over five months. Let that sink in. At this point, we’re tired of it, tired of it happening, tired of hearing about it, and tired of the polemics. So maybe a perspective […]
I write this as I’m listening to a mother frantically scream, “That’s my baby!!!” as she views the body of her deceased 24 year old son for the first time since his death. She’s kicking screaming stomping weeping. I write this as my own therapy … it’s hard to listen to. It must be harder […]
I remember the first time I used the brown, one foot wide by two feet long, wood, velvet lined box. No need for the pomp of a hearse. I used my own car to drive to the hospital. It looks like an inconspicuous tool box, with dings and dents and stains. No one knows what I’m […]
A couple miles from my home on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, three-year-old Scotty McMillan was found unresponsive in his home, the victim of abuse and torture from the hands of his mother and his mother’s boyfriend. Local District Attorney Tom Hogan said, “Little Scotty McMillan is dead. Over a three day period … he was […]