She doesn’t get why the girl who’s been sharing the seat gives her a glare when she gets off the bus– at least not until the girl– pretty in a red and purple vintage style wrap dress, zaftig though more so than Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks– says to the friend who’d been standing next to […]
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Posted in Deep Thoughts, bipolar, meds, mom on Jul 9th, 2010
It’s funny—she’s so used, in a way, to the feelings of sadness, depression, loneliness– all the other emotions that go along with her manic depression that all of the— the bleakness —sometimes despair and siren, clichéd thoughts of that final darkness. Most days she doesn’t think of them much, at least when the meds […]
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Posted in Deep Thoughts, bipolar, links on Apr 28th, 2010
There was a long article in the NYT Magazine Sunday about whether psychopharmacologists do their patients a disservice because their med visits are short (20 minutes) and they focus on symptoms that can respond to drugs that those self-same doctors are able to prescribe.
And yet. The doctor describes the slow creep of doubt, of the […]
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Posted in Deep Thoughts, bipolar, poems on Apr 20th, 2010
Sometimes it’s just a little extra time on the meter,
that first bulb of spring showing yellow or pink,
that one person who says, “that’s a lovely necklace on you.”
It makes a difference, that moment,
between tears and laughter,
giving up and carrying on.
Karma, grace, blessing,
call it
whatever you like.
I know sometimes I’ll forget,
and flowers don’t bloom on demand,
but I can try keep […]
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So, there’s this “cook” thing in my screen name. And I do it, sometimes. Amazing, I know.
Et voila, proof of the photographic variety, because you’re all no, we do not believe it. All you do is bitch about people without their receipts. Because you’ve never lost one piece of paperwork in your life.
So. Recipes, of a sort.
Zucchini, shredded […]
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There’s a long article in this weekend’s Magazine about the hardwiring/predisposition toward anxiety as a psychological disorder, something that adds to the Nature v. Nurture debate. This, in particular, rang true:
“Two people can experience the same level of anxiety, he said, but one who has interesting work to distract her from the jittery feelings might […]
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Posted in Better Half, Deep Thoughts, apocalypse, bipolar, friends, good things, lawyer, links, meta, writing on Aug 17th, 2009
This is a movie review– of sorts. It’s also somewhat surreal– Magritte’s Treachery of Images, except instead of this not being a blog post or a movie review, ceci n’est pas ma vie, my life. At least it’s not the life that I want.
I’ve got about five drafts of this post started, all puttering out. Much […]
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Posted in Deep Thoughts on May 21st, 2009
When I was growing up, the Boston Police Department was what you’d expect– Irish-American males. I was in high school before it really started to change, and the efforts to recruit women and minorities were stepped up. There have been some significant changes (though there’s always room for improvement)– more and more, you see women […]
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Posted in Deep Thoughts, government, politics on Jan 11th, 2009
Not far from my office, there’s an Immigration and Naturalization Service Application Support Center. The street it’s on is a little hard to find, in a warren of confusingly laid out one way streets– if you take the wrong turn, you have to circle all the way back around and start all over again. An […]
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There’s an interesting article in the New York Times about the effect of online book sales on small bookstores– especially the effect of resales on authors and stores.
I admit that I have bought my fair share of new books from Amazon, or gone to a box store like Borders or Barnes and Noble. I don’t […]
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