Category Archives: book

I’ve just uncovered what the silent treatment has done to our conversations about mental health: we don’t even know what words to use. The language for talking about mental health is a thing of great sensitivity and controversy. After decades of living with family members who have bipolar, I’ve come to think of mental illness,Continue reading “The Silent Treatment”

I’m listening to the audio book of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and I’m in love with the voice of Hazel, the 16 year old cancer patient. Driving down Florida’s turnpike in the torrential rain, hazard lights flashing, white knuckles gripping, I hear Hazel describing what it feels like to be young andContinue reading “Crazysauce”

Last Easter my son (three years old at the time) went to church looking for Jesus. Before entering the sanctuary, he knelt at the wire cross filled with flowers, took a yellow carnation from the white plastic bucket sitting on the ground, and added the flower to the cross. Then he yelled out, “I don’tContinue reading “The Secret Message of Easter”