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...
Missing My Friend

Missing My Friend

I hate eating alone in public, always have. I’m not sure if it stems from always being insecure about my weight and being paranoid that people would judge what I was eating or if I was afraid it looked like I had no one in my life willing to sit down and share a...