Once again, I return to one of my favorite topics — cats. I was inspired to write about cats again by a post that showed a picture of a friend’s new cat, which was all black, except for a few white hairs that appeared on the cat’s chest. I commented…

The 988 hotline, designed to be like the 911 connections to emergency services, has been in operation now for a couple of months. What have been the reactions to it so far? Well, the number is shorter than the ten-digit former one for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (now known…

I admit it. When I was younger, I used to read self-help books. You know the kind, ones with titles like Women Who Hate Women Who Love Men Who Love Women Who Hate Cinderella. Back in the day, most self-help books were targeted at women who wanted to know why…

It’s sad when communities that ought to work together for the betterment of all are divided by strife. But that’s just what has been happening in the world of mental health. Even saying “mental health community” is controversial. There are different segments of the population who say that “mental illness”…

I was going to say that the title of this post was metaphorical, but anymore, it may not be. Putting that aside for now, however, teachers today face any number of other difficulties they don’t deserve, some of which have existed for decades and others that have come to the…

“Sleep disturbance is a core symptom of bipolar disorder.” — Often in the past, I went to bed at my usual time but woke up at 4:45 a.m. and couldn’t get back to sleep, no matter what. It was like I had a hamster on a wheel inside my brain. Other nights I would go to bed early and couldn’t…

Those of you who follow my blog know of my enduring love for cats — and not just my own. Last week my blog post was about cats in mysteries (https://butidigress.blog/2022/08/21/mysterious-cats/), so this week I’m going to tackle cats in another genre — science fiction and fantasy. …

I had a right to be angry. I had been gaslighted. I had suffered emotional and verbal abuse. He told me that when I couldn’t answer his accusations, he wanted to kick me. He made up an obscene song as a “tribute” to me and gleefully sang it to his…

Books and cats. Cats and books. They go together like a hot dog and mustard. Well, no they don’t. And I don’t like mustard on my hot dogs anyway. What I meant was that cats appear in a lot of books (and poems, songs, paintings and other forms of art…