Tag: parents

• Surviving Suicide: What I’ve Learned After 10 Years

  

  10 years ago, I attempted suicide. On a summer night in 2008, my parents drove me from the house where I was raised to the emergency room in an effort to save the life of their 21-year-old son. My action was built on several years of mental turmoil and anguish, of unchecked thoughts and words […]

  Dan Metzger

  July 11, 2018

  Essay, Mental Health, Rudimentary Philosophy

  advice, bipolar disorder, bulimia, decade, family, growth, list, love, mental health, mental illness, parents, philosophy, relationships, self-improvement, self-reflection, suicide, writing

• Landlines: One Reason the ’90s Were the Best Decade for Elementary School Romance

  

  Chivalrous courtship, (in the elementary-school-aged-male sense of the word) isn’t dead, but it took a major hit during the latter half of the first decade of this millennium. It started when households began doing away with their home phones and choosing to exclusively use cellular phones. With that one decision, the family itself lost a […]

  Dan Metzger

  February 22, 2018

  Essay, Gallimaufry, Humor, Rudimentary Philosophy

  ’90s, chivalry, classmate, communication, courtship, dinner, elementary school, family, landline, math, nineties, nostalgia, parents, phones, relationships, romance, telephone, writing

• The Webber’s Sorrow

  

  For the malice Nature thrusts upon us no remedy exists. Time, I have come to believe, is the closest aid in relieving the pain of those circumstances in life over which man has no control. Although time is a concept, an unseen hand in its own nature, it is a healer. What comes to mind […]

  Dan Metzger

  January 15, 2014

  Fiction, Short Story

  family, Fiction, independence, mother, parents, short story, spider, spider web