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This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Category Archives: writing
A couple months ago, I proposed to talk about writing for therapy, how to kinda “go there”, via blogging. The conference was yesterday. It was an “unconference” put on by end-patients and people who work on the peripheries of mental care. Why did I want to get involved? For a million reasons. I’ll get to [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Depression, Dimestore Philosophy, Hygiene & Health, Journalling, Loving and Knowing Yourself, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Psychology & Moods, Society, Steff Rants, blogging, internet, keeping it real Tagged absenteeism, assholes, depression, insantiy, mental health, mental health camp, mental illness, pettiness, public speaking, rant, sick, small-minded people, spineless, stigma, stimatizing 14 Comments
Come Saturday I’ll be giving a talk at Vancouver’s “Mental Health Camp,” where the goal is to get people thinking about stigmas attached to a wide range of mental conditions — from ADHD and depression through to eating disorders and compulsions all the way to harder-core afflictions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Me, I’ll be [...]
Also posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Current Events, Depression, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, Life 101, Loving and Knowing Yourself, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Psychology & Moods, Self-Love & Self-Esteem, Society, Specifically Steff, Twitter, adhd, blogging Tagged #mhcyvr10, being open, blogging, depression, how to open up, how to write, mental health, mental health camp, mental illness, revealing yourself, therapeutic writing, Vancouver, what to reveal, what to write about, writing, writing for therapy 3 Comments
On November 16th, 1959, Truman Capote read a New York Times article with only 300 words that would change his life, and American literature, forever. The article began: A wealthy wheat farmer, his wife and their two young children were found shot to death today in their home. They had been killed by shotgun blasts [...]
Also posted in Crime, Dimestore Philosophy, Hollywood, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Specifically Steff, blogging Tagged americana, clutter family, dick hickock, film, hemingway, herbert clutter, History, in cold blood, kansas, literature, mass killing, movies, murder, new york times, non-fiction, nyt, reviews, richard hickock, rural, thompson, true crime, truman capote, writing 2 Comments
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