17th Apr 2010
On Sadness, summer 2003

On Sadness, summer 2003

(I had just arrived back to Winnipeg from my first year of university at McGill in Montreal.  I saw myself falling into the same patterns of depression and self-medication that...

17th Apr 2010
self destruction, 2002

self destruction, 2002

(Perhaps the rawest, most honest thing about depression, self-medication, and addiction, that I have ever written.) She sat there for a few seconds, processing the knowing dread that had suddenly...

17th Apr 2010
idle instruments, 2003

idle instruments, 2003

(Another one about my old “BFF”, how synchronous.  In grade 12, I used drugs to still my violent emotions which provoked such a negative reaction in others.  Although I went...