Experiencing the dark side of a mental disorder

My Writing Process

Coping Skills, Dark Days, Mental Illness, Relocation, Uncategorized, Writing Process

In 2004, I volunteer-taught an ESL class with the Ponca City Area Literacy Council in North Central Oklahoma. After each class, I went to a nearby diner on the corner…

Review: Pieces of Me, by Lizbeth Meredith

Advocacy, Child Abuse, Coping Skills, Dark Days, Mental Illness, Relocation

Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters, by Lizbeth Meredith. She Writes Press. Berkeley. 2016 Reading Pieces of Me, by Lizbeth Meredith, the Alaskan writer and domestic abuse advocate, is…

Why Venezuela Matters?

Dark Days, Mental Illness, Politics

• Currently, Venezuelans are being killed with American money. Golden Sacks just bought bonds thus giving the narco-regime much needed cash to continue its repression.

• Oil refining in the once thriving nation is down to 16% daily capacity. Instead Venezuelan crude oil goes to Cuba where it is refined and sold. Two totalitarian regimes are benefitting from depleting Venezuela of its natural resources and sovereignty.

• Malnutrition will cause devastating effects on the brain of an entire generation of Venezuelans. Its effects will carry on for at least three generations.