Chapter 8: We’re Out of Silver Bullets, Kemo Sabe
The list of therapists hung on my refrigerator for days. Every time I opened the fridge, there it was. The scrawled names seemed to glare...
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redwingwriter
- Sep 8
- 5 min
Chapter 7: Hate at First Sight
The countdown to my visit with the psychiatrist ticked to zero. To say I didn’t want to go meet the man would be an understatement. When...
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redwingwriter
- Sep 1
- 6 min
Chapter 6: Don’t Ask the Question if You Can’t Handle the Answer
The next morning, I peeled a few potatoes to make hash browns for my children’s breakfast. Inside the largest potato lurked a curving...
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redwingwriter
- Aug 24
- 5 min
Chapter 5: Monsters In the Dark
I eased my aching body into the steaming water, then lay back in the tub with a sigh. All day I’d promised myself that if I were able to...
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redwingwriter
- Aug 24
- 5 min
Chapter 4: Trust and Belief Catalyze Change
Why are the exam tables in doctor’s offices located under air conditioning ducts? I shivered. The thin hospital gown was open in the back...
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redwingwriter
- Aug 24
- 8 min
Chapter 3: Descriptions of Depression Are Depressing
Jack made a grab for the telephone receiver as I hung up the phone, and got a handful of my hair instead. “Ouch!” I pried the strands...
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redwingwriter
- Aug 24
- 3 min
Chapter 2: Kitty Litter to the Rescue
“You’re going to be so warm in these!” With Jack’s gleeful assistance, I tugged pair after pair of footed pajamas out of the UPS box. The...
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redwingwriter
- Aug 24
- 8 min
Chapter 1: If Life is a Gift, It’s a Fruitcake
Powerful gusts of wind buffeted our flimsy single-wide trailer. Sheets of rain assaulted the windows with a sound like distant...
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redwingwriter
- Aug 9
- 2 min
Suffering is the Price We Pay to Become Acquainted with God
A Martin Handcart company survivor testified that his suffering, the price that he paid to become acquainted with God, was a privilege to...
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redwingwriter
- Jul 21
- 1 min
Fossil Fish Fishing Trip
My daughter took me on a fishing trip about a week and a half ago, to Kemmerer, WY, at Fossil Lake Safari, where we dug for fish on the...
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redwingwriter
- Jun 19
- 1 min
Today's Reason to Smile: Snowflakes
Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley loved snowflakes, and devoted more than forty years to observing and photographing them. The tiny frozen...
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redwingwriter
- Jun 19
- 3 min
My theft was a victimless crime. Or was it?
Stealing always hurts SOMEONE. It always causes pain, it always creates a victim. Even if it hurts no one else, it harms the person who stea
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redwingwriter
- Jun 19
- 4 min
Five Strategies Winston Churchill Used to Beat Depression
Winston Churchill was a self-proclaimed optimist who battled recurring bouts of depression all his life. He called depression a “black...
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redwingwriter
- Jun 11
- 3 min
Today's Reason to Smile: Proghorn
Strolling along a fence line in Rolling Hills, Wyoming, I found myself on the same side of the fence as a group of proghorn. (We never...
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redwingwriter
- May 25
- 3 min
A Time and Place for Forgiveness
If you want to cross the English Channel, and have your name officially ratified and posted in the short list of successful...
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