How to Get Rid of the Ghosts that Haunt You

By Julie E. RichardsonPhoto by Steinar Engeland on UnsplashI was scared of the dark as a child. The sense of unknowing that came with a dark room was too much for my little heart. I’d peek in my closet for monsters; look under my bed for ghouls. I still lay awake sometimes listening for the things that go bump in the night. Only now it isn’t the creatures of a 9-year-old’s active imagination that dart through my subconscious — it’s the real ghosts of living.Heartache. Loss. Betrayal. Failure. Disappointment.We don’t get to multiple decades of living without acquiring [...]

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Everyone Has a Different Story that Puts Them Here

By Brigid Morrissey Forty years ago, a crisis and epidemic rocked the United States and the rest of the world so hard that almost everyone was in a panic. AIDS became prevalent in the ’80s and ’90s when it is believed that the virus had spread over five continents. Several theories developed as to the spread; some have been proven wrong, like the idea that AIDS could be spread through casual contact, food, and water. Others, like AIDS being a “ga