Featured Piece
Mental Health
Some of my writing can be found at TheMighty.com and on the website of the mental health non-profit Breaking Taboo.
23 Years of Bipolar One, and I’m Still Dancing.
running on the platform of hope and wonder.
-Stories- (13-minute read)
For best formatting, click on image to read the story. *Also featured at www.breaking-taboo.org.
I will always be a little bit strange.
A second-guesser of even my most obvious traits and talents. I will often wonder when I will crack…again. And settle for the normalcy only a person like me can have.
from Baggage.
-Prose- ( 2-minute read.)
To Anyone With a Mental Illness Who Thinks They Accomplished 'Nothing' This Decade.
Raise your glass higher, my dear.
written at the turn of the decade for NYE 2020.
More than meds.
Bipolar disorder recovery is more than just taking some pills.
featured at www.themighty.com
Being OK with Being Bipolar.
featured at www.breaking-taboo.org.
I don’t know if I will ever be the person I was before Bipolar 1 Disorder took control of my life.
But maybe that’s okay.
Uncategorized Thinking
Wish they told us
how silly we were with our arms full of Shakespearean sonnets, early 19th-Century American literature, and a Spanish-English dictionary, Vol. 5. Wish they could have told us that the last final we bombed on Oscar Wilde would never be anything more than the flick of a pen mark staining the page of some weathered grade book that had been tossed aside in a molting cardboard box. And that “A” you received on the paper you spent eight weeks grueling over will quickly reclaim its rightful place at the beginning of the alphabet, and as time wears on, it will become less and less a description of you.
-Uncategorized, Commentary- ( 4-minute read)
(Click on IMAGE for the entire piece.)