Hope | Jim Sims | Open to Hope Foundation

March 10, 2010 – 1:30 am | No Comment

Question from a reader: It’s now been six months since my mother died. In many ways it seems like worlds and eons since then, but in some ways not at all. I really miss her …

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Another Man Down: Suicide Takes a Second Friend

November 3, 2009 – 6:50 am | No Comment

Late last night, I received an email with tragic news about the loss of another friend to suicide.
The news came with a copy of his suicide note, a well-written 9 page letter which I am …

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