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Whenever I walk through cemeteries, I always note the person’s birth date as well as their date of death. I like to know how long a person lived. Then, I wonder, especially about the short lived lives, how exactly they died.  For me, a person’s death is very much a part of their life’s story. …

I was born to Paul and Darlene Macek. I was their sixth child as well as their fourth born daughter. As I grew up in the family, I began noticing and relishing that there were certain privileges that accompanied the status as being my father’s daughter.  Benefits The first job I remember Dad as having…

As a suicide survivor, and an adult child of an alcoholic, I know how to survive. I self-taught myself how to weather the storms early on in my life because of our frequent moves. By the time I was in seventh grade,we’d moved from Nebraska to South Dakota, from South Dakota to Colorado and then…

More than once, someone has asked me, “How did you forgive yourself for your father’s suicide?” My short answer is that my battle was not so much with letting myself off the hook. I was only thirteen at the time of his death. I wondered, for a brief amount of time, if I’d done something…