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My Lifelong Interest in Suicide: Essay Inspired by Martin Short

marla miller 22 May 2026 Featured, Writermama Musings No Comment

My Lifelong Interest in Suicide: Essay Inspired by Martin Short Earliest Memories Though I had no word for it then. I was about four when an awareness of suicide first entered my life. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Irish German Catholic ...

The Writing Life, Mental Health and Mental Illness

marla miller 02 May 2024 Featured, Marketing the Muse, Writermama Musings No Comment

The Writing Life, Mental Health and Mental Illness Before I shifted careers, I was an RN, MSN and my specialty was psychiatric nursing. For two decades I practiced exclusively on psychiatric units, either managing them or supervising student nurses, undergraduates usually ...