Write Your Own Ending

Write Your Own Ending

For the majority of my life I’ve hated Father’s Day. A day meant to honor that man in my life that was a solid foundation. A steady presence. A protector. A day set aside for a man I’ve never known. That not knowing is tough. Harder some days than...
Lighting the Path

Lighting the Path

Within an hour of learning that the highly successful fashion designer Kate Spade had taken her own life, I learned of a local teenager who’d made the same gut-wrenching choice. I can think of no clearer example of how nondiscriminatory mental illness is. Kate...