As the holidays near, it seems like the issue of suicide keeps coming up. A friend of mine is currently struggling with this, as someone in her family attempted to take her life late last week ( Read more... )

I went to bed at 11:00. I felt tired. My bed and pillows were exactly the way I like them to be. Ready...set ( Read more... )

I don't understand how some parents can let their children completely run amok. I think about how my brothers and I were raised and how my parents would have NEVER let us act the way some kids do today ( Read more... )

Yosuke is an African-gray parrot who lives in Japan. When he flew out of his cage this week and got lost, he was captured by police, taken to the station and then transferred to a vet hospital, where after a few days he started talking to the vet, sharing with him his name and address. Police couldn’t believe the bird was telling the truth, but ( Read more... )

We've all done things we regret. In life, there aren't really "do overs" per se as much as there are opportunities to make different choices later on. Life is a harsh teacher, and I think by learning from others mistakes, we give ourselves a chance to learn by proxy ( Read more... )

I feel so small most of the time. I look around my world and see so many people in need. There is such an urgency in my heart to reach out, to do something, anything, but in whole scheme of things, it never seems to be enough ( Read more... )

In a study released today out of the UK, 46% of teachers stated that their students self-injured. http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2266367,00.htmlRead more... )

It sounds stupid, but one of the best parts of sleeping for me is my inability to hear what is going on around me. Somehow there is a restful connection...if I don't know about it, I can't worry about it or try to fix it ( Read more... )

The holidays are supposed to be about family, good food and fellowship with friends. But for me, the holidays were always too painful to focus on anything but getting through them with my sanity in tact. Believe it or not, self-injury allowed me to do that ( Read more... )