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• How to Start an Internet Group and Get It Going

  By: Karyl Chastain Beal
  On October 9, 1998, I started my first group with a group service called onelist.com. Onelist later sold out to e-groups, and e-groups eventually sold out to yahoogroups.More

• Where Is Your Homework, Lisa?

  By: Karyl Chastain Beal
  Is Homework Really That Important?Dear Friends,I no longer teach in public schools, but for what seems like 100 years, I did. During my long career, I did the best I knew how to do at the time, based on where I was in life, and what I had learned about teaching.More

• The Theme from MASH - Suicide is Not Painless

  By: Karyl Chastain Beal
  The Theme from MASHI flipped the button on the remote control, pausing mindlessly at each channel to see the picture on the screen; I could not motivate myself to do anything else. I had worked all day and was too tired to move. I needed to do something that would require no expenditure of energy, no time to feel.More

• How Long Does It Take to Mend a Broken Heart?

  By: Karyl Chastain Beal
  Julian Austin, Canadian country singer, released a song called Should Be Over You. He sings, How long does it take to mend a broken heart? After the heartache and tears, lonely and hurting, one night stands and drinking ain't working, and missing you has near killed me a time or two, then after that I should be over you.More

• Guilty, Your Honor: The Burden of Guilt After a Suicide

  By: Karyl Chastain Beal
  Guilty, Your Honor, I whisper.Have you ever done anything so horrible that you would prefer to hide in a dark closet for the rest of your life than have someone find out you did it? Have you ever done something so bad that even remembering what you did causes you to hyperventilate and shake?More

• After Suicide: Returning to Life, Thanks to an Owl

  By: Karyl Chastain Beal
  Have you ever lost the ability to laugh? I did.When Arlyn died, I knew I would never laugh again.More

• When Sorrow Is Too Great to Be Borne Alone, Support Groups Reach Out

  By: Karyl Chastain Beal
  Not long after Arlyn died, my husband and I decided to attend a support group program run by the local Hospice organization. We felt lost, afraid, and alone, and we desperately needed to understand the emotional roller coaster we were on.So the night of the first support meeting, we drove 30 miles to the church where the meeting was held.More

• Signs After Suicide: The Red Butterfly

  By: Karyl Chastain Beal
  Shortly after noon, I went into Arlyn's bedroom to get a few things to take with me. I was preparing to drive about three miles out into the country, to Woodhaven Road.I stood and gazed around her room for a few minutes; it was full of Arlyn, but it seemed so empty.More