“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” Kurt Cobain. Alexander McQueen. Junior Seau. L’Wren Scott. David Foster Wallace. Chris Cornell. Robin Williams. Kate Spade. Anthony Bourdain. Depression clearly doesn’t care if you are a celebrity. It doesn’t care who you are, how much money you have, or what […]
Depression; /dəˈpreSH(ə)n/; Noun
Today, I fed my depression. I gave it a huge plate of steaming, saucy pasta with cheese and tender meatballs. After that, I let it consume the remnants of a crinkled bag of chocolate chips, one after another. I gave it a bowl of frozen yogurt. I tried to stuff it down, to cover it, to […]
Oh, Mamma
Poetry writing exercise: pick a topic, choose a subject, decide who is doing the talking, and then attempt to instill a feeling by finding a voice. Topic: depression; subject: a mother; who’s doing the talking? her child; the voice: unknown (my apologies – but the voice came from the little child, not me). Oh, Mamma Why you […]