It was only later that I realized my soon-to-be wife was already in the throes of her own system failure as she sank into clinical depression, and the physical darkness and booming silence of those eerie Mississippi nights would soon manifest into our lives when we married just two months later. However ..., I ... learned how to combat the darkness of depression's shadow. There are thirteen lessons I learned from living with dark. Lesson #1 is ....

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen (Louis L'Amour). Tales from the Wild West...