by B. Nichols | Nov 13, 2018 | Other
A 3 year old child, a border collie, a microwave, a 15-foot canoe, or my oldest child’s left leg. What do all of these things have in common? Well according to Google, they all weigh at or around 40 pounds each. This is also the amount of weight I’ve lost since March....
by B. Nichols | Jul 4, 2018 | Other
I am obsessive, usually drowning myself in things I like, a lot of times for the worse. I am overly emotional, sometimes finding myself overly excited about the most mundane things, and quick to fighting tears at something as simple as reading a news headline where...
by B. Nichols | Mar 2, 2018 | Family
I’ll do my best to not bore you with clichés of growing older and wiser. I’m not sure I’ve ever been wise, and the more I grow old, the more I feel that’s the god’s honest truth and not me being modest. Every not and then, though, you have to sit back and realize that...
by B. Nichols | Jan 3, 2016 | Family, Other
It’s 3 AM, and I will openly apologize to anyone who reads this, as it will be unedited. My posts are usually filtered through my wife where she tells me where I’ve been an idiot. Not this one. Proceed with caution. The biggest misconception about depression, is that...
by B. Nichols | Dec 19, 2015 | Family, Other
I remember when Christmas changed for me. It was 1992 while living in Visalia, California. My parents had been separated off and on through the year, and I had my first interaction with death, as both of my father’s parents had died, Pa in February, and Granny in...
