Remnants of hope

It’s mostly shampoos and soaps and remnants of hopes left to crumble to dust in the hotel room. The person’s gone they’ve traveled on to glory, to a new story, to the psych ward or a place with more gloom Letters to know one Notes that will never be read From a soul living a […]

First Post Grad Job – False Start

Okay, I am armed with a Master of Social Work degree and I am determined to do the most good with it. Job hunting is like dating. I swipe right and left and set up interviews to see if I can find a relationship where my specific history and skill-set is needed. As for me, […]

Let’s take a walk Todd

Feral? Pc’s Todd Spitzer called some of his citizens feral

From the Locked Psych Ward

I spent the day in a locked Psych Ward, or the “BHU” as we call it. It was loud and filled with free range clients walking, talking and visiting with each other, or rocking in corners. Judging people and ignoring them as nuisances is too easy. Seeing them as people who are ill and in […]

#JeSuisCharlie , Mental Illness, drawing Muhammad and Hyper Religiosity

This picture is more of a sin than killing people. What I’ve done by drawing this is to create a graven image and made an idol out if Jesus and even worse, out of Muhammad. In Muslim culture it is frowned upon to draw or create the human form. Working with the severely mentally ill […]