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March 1, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: The Kids are Not Alright, Alright, Alright

A discussion of mental health in the life of teens.

January 8, 2018 by Karen Jensen, MLS

An Open Letter to Logan Paul

  TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST DEALS WITH SUICIDE AND HAS SOME GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS IN IT On January 1st of this year, I logged on to my Twitter account to catch up on the latest news and wish everyone a Happy New Year. Instead, I learned that there was a lot of controversy surrounding a YouTuber […]

October 1, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Sunday Reflections: TRIGGER WARNING – This Post is About Suicide and Why We Shouldn’t Joke About It

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS POST IS ABOUT SUICIDE. I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND IF YOU CAN’T READ IT. On December 31st of this year, my best friend from high school got online and posted on Facebook: “Happy New Year everyone, have a great year.” A mere twelve hours later his new wife – they had just gotten married […]

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Sunday Reflections: Exit Strategies, a personal reflection for National Suicide Prevention Week (Trigger Warning)

September 13, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse and Suicide are discussed in this post The first time I ever thought about it I was in the 8th grade and being abused by someone living in my household. I wrote a will, typing it up on the old fashioned typewriter I had asked for Christmas that year, and folded […]

O Captain, My Captain: In which I mourn the loss of a childhood hero and discuss depression and suicide

August 12, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Last night I came home from working at my library with a DVD in hand to watch with my family. It was 10 o’clock, but it’s one of our last few nights where we can stay up late so I went to slip it in. As the DVD player opened, a movie sat inside of […]

Book Review: A Really Awesome Mess by Trish Cook and Brendan Halpin

July 30, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Just when you thought Egmont Week was over….. one more review from their fall catalog! The writing pair behind Notes from the Blender, a great bit of realistic fiction about the complications and joys of becoming, through no effort of your own, part of a blended family during high school, is back for another novel […]

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Book Review: Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia by Jenny Torres Sanchez (An ARC giveaway!)

April 1, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The Excerpt (the beginning paragraphs):     “The old man across the street is dead.  I don’t know who figured it out or how, but I think he’d been dead for days when they found him.  School has been out for three weeks.  I estimate that would have been the last time I saw him. Alive.     […]

One day is not enough: Suicide Prevention Day (by Heahter B.)

September 30, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

World Suicide Prevention Day was September 10th, twenty days ago. I didn’t know it at the time. I found a postcard on my desk, buried in catalogs and other mail, reminding me of this fact just this morning. I have a love/hate relationship with these types of days. Part of me feels like it does a […]

Thirteen Reasons Why: Teens and Suicide

November 14, 2011 by Karen Jensen, MLS

“Why did you do it man, I thought you were stronger than that.”  That was the Facebook post last week that made me realize that something very horrible had happened to a young man who had spent several years coming to some of my teen programs at a previous library position.  A boy that had just graduated […]

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