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 | 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...
by B. Nichols | Sep 5, 2015 | Family, Other
Busy, busy, busy. This has been my life for the last 3 months. Between work, home, and personal projects, I’m wearing thin. The bad part is that the second I start removing things from my plate, my mind starts to wonder and then it’s just better to over-occupy myself....
by B. Nichols | Apr 14, 2015 | Family, Other
I’ve lost a lot of people in my life to death. As you can imagine, the ones that were the hardest were my parents. I lost one when I was too young to fully understand, and one when I was old enough to grasp the full ramifications. I can tell you that in the end, there...