People with bipolar disorder usually leave behind a trail of expenses and unfinished projects. However, with the help of mental health professionals and an army of friends giving me moral support, I have tackled the publishing of my book as a project that needs cost, time management, and risk management.…
Dragonfly Dreams by Jennifer Chow is the story of a woman who dies giving birth and becomes a ghost to guide her daughter’s first years. Fresno, CA in the 1880 with the end of the gold rush and the beginning of the Transcontinental Rail Line serves as the historical backdrop…
In a horse-training field, in Orin, WY, a family of women prepared for five months to welcome 440 guests. Drivers turned right at the Orin State Park and Rest Area, and entered the property where the Hegglund Sisters welcomed campers with broad smiles and rosy cheeks. The sisters come from…
© Lisbeth Coiman At the peak of a mania episode, I have the tendency to develop psychosis. It starts with self-referent thoughts, the idea that the news refers to me. If left untreated, the idea that “they-are-out-to-get-me” develops into full-blown delusion of surveillance through my computer, other digital devices. However,…
Watch out for demagogues, fellow Americans, from left or right. A demagogue seeks power by appealing to the ignorant and uneducated with incendiary discourse, not by engaging in rational dialogue, or by setting out a sustainable plan for his nation.
Life is like a baseball game. At the bottom of the inning, play with a mitt in hand. Catch with humility. I have been the recipient of generosity, more in acts of kindness than in material goods. When I was a single mother, I had the education necessary to…
I have learned to walk in the dark house so well See colors where there is only a void Find beauty in the gloom. Bend at the corners, Stride with confidence in the long corridors Avoid the depths of the abysm on the edge Muffled in the comfort…