Looking forward, looking back. I’ve come a long way down the track
Five years is a brilliant achievement for a printed publication, these days. Let alone one that is...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Dec 17, 2019 | Featured, Life, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
Five years is a brilliant achievement for a printed publication, these days. Let alone one that is...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Jul 10, 2019 | Life, Mental health | 0 |
It’s been six years since I did a run of any note. Six years… and during that time...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Apr 23, 2019 | Featured, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
27 March this year was the last ‘coming-of-age’ milestone of my father’s suicide. He took his own life twenty-one years ago, in 1998.
Ordinarily I’m overcome with a sense of dread in the weeks before this annual milestone, but this year, I wasn’t.
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Oct 13, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
It was Saturday, March 28, 1998, when I received the news that would cast a shadow over the rest of my life.
I was 16 years old, and nothing would ever be ‘normal’ as I knew it, again. My dad had killed himself and now, 20 years on, I still have a father-shaped hole in my heart that won’t ever be filled.
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Sep 13, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
One of the many shitful things about having a parent who died while I was young is that my kids...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Aug 15, 2018 | Life, Media, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 0 |
A new suicide prevention education campaign has been launched through a collaboration of leading...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Aug 21, 2017 | Comedy, Mental health, Performance | 0 |
Depression and suicide are far too common, particularly amongst men in regional areas. My father...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Jul 28, 2017 | Comedy, Mental health, Performance | 0 |
In mid-July, I spent three days in Darwin to do my storytelling show HUMPTY DUMPTY DADDY as part...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Jul 4, 2017 | Comedy, Mental health, Performance | 0 |
I’m super excited to share with you that my storytelling show about fatherhood and mental health, Humpty Dumpty Daddy, will be part of this year’s Sydney Fringe program. After great audience feedback in Melbourne and...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Mar 27, 2017 | Life, Mental health, Parenting, Writing | 4 |
Today marks 19 years since my father hanged himself. For more than half of those years, I hated...
Read Moreby JC Clapham | Feb 24, 2017 | Comedy, Life, Mental health, Parenting, Performance | 0 |