(Check Your Head is a new feature in which I write about movies that address mental illness to extremely varying degrees of success. Full disclosure: this is also preliminary promotion for the book

Thursday, January 8th started as an excessively ordinary day. I went to work (wearing new pants that I worried looked like pajama bottoms), planned to watch Is This Thing On? (which I had

I wanted to wait a little while to write about what happened to Rob and Michelle Reiner, not just because I was on a self-imposed hiatus from writing in December, but I didn&

If you start worrying about why I'm not posting here (or are relieved), don't. I've decided to take the entire month of December off from writing. I

“My story is one about happiness being easier to find once we realize we do not have forever to find it.” I had never heard of Andrea Gibson until she died. I used