Month: August 2017

As I mentioned in my “pilot” article, I was raised in a strict Christian environment. God was everywhere, watching every move I made. One night, when I was about nine years old, my younger sister and I sneaked out of our bedrooms, down into the kitchen, to get a drink from the refrigerator. It was an old Servel gas refrigerator that stood  as a mammoth monument overwhelming everything else in the dark, tiny kitchen. As my sister and I raided that refrigerator, we noticed an imposing figure at the back door that led to our driveway. There, between the...

This afternoon’s news about Sinead O’Conner “hits home” for me. According to press reports, she claims to have been living alone for two years, away from her family in Ireland, as “punishment” for being mentally ill, angry and suicidal. She claims to be suffering from three mental illnesses. The singer was quoted as saying, “I’m only one of millions and millions and millions of people who are just like me, actually, who don’t have, necessarily, the resources that I have in my heart or my purse for that matter.” Perhaps the most poignant question she asked was, “Why are...