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Something new each Saturday.
Life, the universe and my circumstances permitting.
I'm focusing on 'family stories' at the moment. ("A Change of Pace: Family Stories" (11/23/2024))- Category: Family Stories
But if something else caught and held my interest during the week, that's what I'll share.
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Brian H. Gill
I was born in 1951. I'm a husband, father and grandfather. One of the kids graduated from college in December, 2008, and is helping her husband run businesses and raise my granddaughter; another is a cartoonist and artist; #3 daughter is a writer; my son is developing a digital game with #3 and #1 daughters. I'm also a writer and artist.
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Tag Archives: mental health
You Don’t Have to be Crazy to be Catholic…
When mental health, or lack thereof, pops up in stuff I read, I take notice. That happened Sunday afternoon, and I realized that I’d found something to talk about this week. “…A Catholic Approach to Mental Health Care….” “Faith, Hope … Continue reading
Lenten Misery Misses the Point
It’s Lent and I’m a Catholic. So how come I’m not sitting in some dark corner, reflecting on doom, gloom, and how perfectly rotten I am? Or at least moaning and wringing my hands over the world’s dreadfully dire state: … Continue reading
Money, Common Sense, and an All-Too-Common Assumption
“I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich. Rich is better!”(Attr. Beatrice Bakrow Kaufman; from Leonard Lyons’ column, The Washington Post (May 12, 1937) … via Wikiquote) Whoever said that first, I think the one-liner makes sense. This week I’m talking … Continue reading
Prescription Filled: A Small Matter, but Good News
This is an update to Monday’s unscheduled post. I still don’t know why this household got a robocall shortly after I’d started the process of requesting authorization so that a local pharmacy could take care of a necessary prescription. But … Continue reading
Filling a Prescription: Jumping Through Extra Hoops This Month
First, the good news. I have enough methyphenidate for another five days, and may be in the process of resolving another SNAFU with both getting the legally-required authorization properly processed and satisfying the paper-shuffling needs of every organization involved. The … Continue reading
