Starting in January of 2012, I set out to write something on this blog on a daily basis. Sometimes it was nonsense that nobody else would be interested in, but there was a post every single day for 4 1/2 years, until the middle of last month. For reasons I’m still trying to completely understand, I fell into a bit of a funk and found it hard to do much of anything. A few weeks later, I still find myself fighting this depression, but I am slowly coming around. I hope this was just a temporary blip and daily updates will continue from here on out.
[…] Mental illness seems to be a theme for me lately. Thankfully, Gary doesn’t go too deep in to his mother’s illness, instead focusing on its effects on him growing up. I had a much easier time getting through that then I did the story of his brother’s illness and subsequent death. This happened well before I started listening to the Stern show, so, while I knew it had happened, the details were not something I was familiar with. […]
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