Category Archives: Living With Depression

I waited forty-two years for someone to take this photo

I could stare at this photo for days. Maybe longer. Last week my girlfriend and I got tired of being stuck in our little village. So, while her oldest son was with his father on their court-mandated visit, the two … Continue reading

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The time my grandfather taught me how to build a dam

When we were kids, and we were lucky, it would rain. And the parking area of my grandfather’s mountain farm would fill up with streams and rivulets. The farm house was in a small valley, near the top of one … Continue reading

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Neuroplasticity: it’d be so much easier if our brains were made from Play-doh

I’m poor. Constantly broke. I’ve lived in poverty my entire life. I was raised, first by a political collective of people who believed poverty was a virtue and an ideal, and then by a single mother who had no support … Continue reading

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A few photos a video and a song or two because it’s too hot for words

For the past few days the thermometer has been pushing towards 40C (104F), which is stupid hot. It’s starting to cool off tonight, and it’s supposed to get much nicer for the weekend, but it’s still +30C in my apartment. … Continue reading

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My daughter gets her gravestone

I don’t believe there’s an ‘afterlife’. I believe this is it, there is nothing after. I do believe we are made of atoms. We are a collection of pieces that makes us each unique. Other than how they’re grouped together, … Continue reading

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Updated: A gravestone update plus a video of me pushing my son around and some thunder

Whoops, I screwed up the security settings on the videos… sorry about that. They’ll work now. In its 100-year history the company constructing the headstone for our daughter has never, ever, had a request to have the family there when … Continue reading

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