Columnists

New: ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Dealing with Symptoms with Meditation and Medication

Jack Bragen
Friday August 15, 2014 - 03:43:00 PM

It is 7:30 in the morning and my thoughts have started on a negative tangent. It occurred to me that I ought to stop what I'm doing, take a step back, and reset my thought processes. -more-


ON MENTAL ILLNESS: We Should be Considered a Minority

Jack Bragen
Friday August 08, 2014 - 11:10:00 AM

The maltreatment experienced by persons with mental illness is not on the same scale of severity that African American people experienced several decades ago in which there was extreme violence perpetrated upon them. (We yet have a long way to go to alleviate the discrimination, wrongful conviction and violence directed at nonwhite individuals.) -more-


SENIOR POWER: the long goodbye

Helen Rippier Wheeler, pen136@dslextreme.com
Friday August 08, 2014 - 11:06:00 AM

Francisco Mártinez Roca aka Paco Roca is a strip cartoonist, born in 1969 in Valencia, Spain. Experienced with graphic novels and advertising illustrations, he is most known for comic books like his graphic novel, Wrinkles. (In Spanish, arrugas. Unrelated to the 1978 novel of the same title by Charles Simmons.) -more-