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My father kept this newspaper clipping taped up in his shop. It always made me stop and think and wonder if my father had learned these things. After he closed down his shop, I laminated it with scotch tape and have managed to keep it for decades. I hadn't seen it in...

“The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw...

Excerpted from the audiobook version of The Little Black Book of Suicide Notes. Written and read by Adele Paula Royce.   The audio version of The Little Black Book of Suicide Notes is available for download from...

In the film M*A*S*H, Captain Walter Koskiusko "Painless Pole" Waldowski stages a Last Supper and faux suicide following an embarrassment in the boudoir. As far as dark comedies go, M*A*S*H nailed it, and the song “Suicide Is Painless” captures a certain essence of...

I found this amazing quote yesterday, by the author Haruki Murakami. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come...

I so appreciate the perspective Jay Mahler brings to the importance of spirituality in healing and recovery for people who have struggled with darkness in his interview, SPIRITUAL MEDICINE: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY. This excerpt from the full...