Liking Photos
Am I wasting my time liking photos on Instagram and Google+? Should I be posting duplicates to both sites? Which is a better use of my time? Should I create a mirror blog [...]
Terse, Too Terse, Way Too Terse
Woke up to a dream. In my dream, author Richard Milner, the leader of the writing group Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write and author of the novel The Vessel of Kali, handed me a [...]
Another Late Night
A couple nights ago, or perhaps it was simply last night, I was up late, unable to fall asleep. Finally, at 1:30 am, I decided to check if I had taken my night [...]
LMFT
Back in 1990 I got an MA in psychology from New College of California. I worked hard over the next two years to rack up the then required 3,000 internship hours, and study [...]
NAMI Peer-to-Peer
To join a NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Peer-to-Peer group, or not to join a NAMI Peer-to-Peer group? That is the question. If I am to volunteer for NAMI, I must first [...]
To Work or Not to Work
My past experience has been that in the workplace I become overstimulated, that I take on too many responsibilities, overwork, and burn out. Taking care of my husband and son, as well as [...]
Not Just Dysthymia
Not until I was 39, was I diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. I am now 50. At 39, I recognized the symptoms of mania in myself, euphoria, the feeling of being called by God [...]
Photography
I started taking photos to use as illustrations for my blog posts, but the images seem unrelated to my writing. The photos are simply what I find beautiful. Here I post a collage [...]
Prose Poems
In a way, I write prose poems. Short jabs of non-fiction. A few words indicating where my thoughts are, where they may take me. Like a poem in that in few words, I do [...]
The Gathering on Mental Health and the Church
Last Friday I attended The Gathering on Mental Health and the Church at Saddleback Church. The all-day conference was a joint effort of Pastor Rick and Kay Warren of Saddleback Church, Bishop Kevin Vann of [...]