It Wasn’t Me: A Millennial’s Perspective on School Shootings
Reflecting on my youth, I can recall many of my previous classmates who had absent parents, less-than-ideal home lives, access to guns, and were enrolled […]
Thoughts on the Parkland Shooter’s Sentencing
Today the fight against school shootings is marked by the recent judgment and sentencing of the Parkland School Shooter. Whatever our idea of justice is […]
How to deal with anxiety related to mass shootings?
“With fear and anxiety, I dropped my children at school that next morning, having to convince myself repeatedly during the day that what I imagined […]
Collective Trauma and Response
These repeated mass school shootings over the last 20 years have left our society in a sort of paralysis. Many wonder how we can move […]
When School Violence is a Cancer
We believe that if we treat school shootings as cancer in our society, we may be able to mirror the medical model of disease prevention. […]
Is every school’s violent threat the same?
We live in a time of uncertainty due to the ongoing gun violence. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been over 468 mass […]
THE DREAD OF CHANGE
Separation Anxiety When I was fourteen, I was sent to study abroad; suddenly, leaving my close-knit family and the familiar environment felt like a cataclysmic […]
Children’s Grief after COVID
We have been swamped fighting a virus that has threatened our usual way of living. COVID-19 has made us feel vulnerable and evidenced the fragility […]
JAZZ, GROWTH AND MENTAL HEALTH
I once came across an interesting fictional story about the great jazz player, Charlie ‘Bird” Parker “, that takes place late in his life where […]