Category Archives: Old Post Day

Old Post Day | Fatherless Fatherhood

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently writing about the relationship between myself, my girlfriend and her three-year old son. My girlfriend and I have been dating for nine weeks, but it’s mostly the relationship between myself and her … Continue reading

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Old Post Day | In Search Of An Intervention

I was untreated for eighteen years… for some of them I was homeless, for almost all of them I was surviving on two dollars a day. What I was capable of was making an appointment and, eventually, getting to an … Continue reading

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Old Post Day | Looking For Tall Bridges

This selection for “Old Post Day” was about the role suicide fantasies play in our lives. I wrote it back in 2006, about a week after starting Salted. I was towards the end of a major depression which had brought … Continue reading

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Old Post Day | Breaking Up With Manic Depression

The basic problem with blogs is the more you write, the more gets left behind in the archives. So a few times a month I’m going to leave excerpts from my original posts which I think can really help people … Continue reading

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Old Post Day | kicking at the darkness

This is something I’ve been planning for a few months. The basic problem with blogs is the more you write, the more gets left behind in the archives. So a few times a month I’m going to leave excerpts from … Continue reading

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