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The Old Man and the Sea

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on May 28, 2025

THE PURSUIT OF SUCCESS: Earnest Hemingway was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. The…

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Living With Hope and Despair

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on September 23, 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic people have vacillated between hope and despair. It has felt like…

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What to Read During a Lockdown

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 24, 2021February 25, 2021

Victorians have recently experienced a third COVID 19 lockdown. The same restrictions were applied to…

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Robbing People of Hope

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on November 3, 2020

Everybody needs hope in their lives. When we rob people of hope, we deny them…

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Deaths of Despair

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 27, 2020

Princeton researchers Anne Case and Angus Deaton have dubbed suicide, drug overdoses and alcohol-related liver…

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Despair

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on August 31, 2017August 15, 2019

Despair is a common human experience. We have all felt despair during difficult periods in…

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When Hope Is Not Enough

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on July 20, 2017August 7, 2019

When the lead singer of Audioslave and Soundgarden Chris Cornell, killed himself recently it sent…

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The Pilgrim’s Progress

  • by Bruce Rickard
  • Posted on February 26, 2016September 2, 2019

John Bunyan lived a difficult life. He was born into poverty and clearly understood the…

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Bruce Rickard

Bruce Rickard

Reflections on Suicide and Staying Alive: My son's suicide changed everything. I felt an obligation to understand why anyone would want to end their life. My regular blog posts explore the causes and prevalence of suicide and what is needed to sustain a healthy mind and a hope-filled future.

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