Been a while since I walked down the hall of the Survivor Q & A series, that’s suicide survivor – someone who lost a loved one to suicide, not a person who tried to kill themselves.
As many of you know, in 2005 my good friend Jim Thompson died by suicide. His death rocked my world. [...]

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Moving Through Grief and back into the Giggle
Earlier this year I posted some questions to my fellow survivors of suicide in an effort to better understand the grieving process and to gain tips and insight about moving through grief and hopefully, back into the Giggle.
No one dodges loss in life completely but we can overcome [...]

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Neil Chethik, one of the editors at Open to Hope, contacted me last month to ask permission to post my article Suicide Survivor’s Guilt on their web site.
Open to Hope provides information and resources for people who have experienced loss. They provide a forum where people who have experienced loss can learn from and help each other and [...]

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Part 3 of my Suicide Awareness and Survivor Support series focuses on the guilt survivors of suicide experience. In this case, I talk about my guilt for not taking the handgun my friend Jim used to kill himself.
This is a long post so unless you are an SOS, survivor of suicide, you may want to hit the pass button on this one. [...]

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Sicilian Zen is enlightenment through self-contemplation, the ingestion of large quantities garlic and a fully developed sense of guilt.
Giggle On!
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Deep Thoughts by Sicilian Zen Master Christa

If a meatball drops on the kitchen floor and no one is around to hear it, does the meatball make a sound?
If there is garlic in the pork roast but you cannot [...]

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