In case you missed it, Mike Cope is leaving Abilene and the Highland Church of Christ to work with Heartbeat ministries and Landon Saunders. Keep the Cope family in your prayers and pray that God can use Mike in a new way for the kingdom of God. Read Mike’s post about it here. Read about it at...

I echo Charles R. Larson's sentiments ["In This Game of Slots, D.C. Drivers Are the Losers," Local Opinions, March 8]. I often park at meters in Northwest, and I, too, have put in my first quarter without getting any time in return. Generally, if I put in another quarter, some time will register. Bu...

Yvonne, one of my readers, sent me encouraging messages about my sore mouth after just one dose of gemcitabine.  She wrote: "I feel your pain!!! ...In fact, I am rinsing along with you this week!!" Now, it is really true that misery loves company, and I felt better knowing that I was...

Help me support a friend whose father attempted suicide. Added complication: my friend is half a world away from both his family and me. My friend "M" called me a few hours ago with the horrible news that his father had attempted suicide. Its caught him and his family completely off-guard ...

Now is not the time to retreat because of an uncertain future and a hard economy. It's the right time to practice your coping skills and find out just how resilient you are.Don't hide and run away. Deal with the stress of today by addressing it and being yourself. Not the person you once thought you...

coping digitally, a session at the 2009 northern voice blogging conference that talked about the intersection of blogging and mental health and how social media can help derease the stigma of mental health was a real success.  raul did a live blog of the session. thanks, raul! the overwhelming feed...

I try so hard to be positive and find the good in my life. I’m usually pretty good at it. Sometimes I just get pissed off. Yesterday I slept while Hart went to lunch with friends. From 3 p.m. on, I sat in my corner on the couch. We had plans with friends for dinner. They came over, we ate pizz...

How can something so simple be so effective? There's a trick to it. Look at this guy! It doesn't seem like he has a care in the world. I couldn't smile that way if I received a seven figure advance and a seven book deal in the mail. I couldn't smile like that if God Himself had marked the paths of o...

Unfortunately for me, I make birthday goals. Each year I race to the next birthday to prove that I am, indeed, not a loser after all, and, in fact, am a person of distinguished greatness. I do this by making a long list of impossible goals that I expect to have completed by the time I'm a year older...

It's hard to believe it's been almost two months since the last post here on Reason, but how about this for breaking the silence.... If you're not yet familiar with the "micro-blogging" world of madness that is Twitter, Suspect Paki, who first pointed yours truly in its general direction and whose o...