I was waiting in Lawrence’s room tonight, as he was supposed to go get his favorite stuffed animals, Monkey and Blue, when I heard him say, “We’re rich!” It took a few seconds for me to realize what in the world he was talking about. I had just brought out from the garage the gold-plated [...]
I always have a weird reaction to hearing about a celebrity who is struggling with mental illness. I feel pity and empathy, but I also feel something akin to satisfaction. As I said, its weird, at least on the surface. The satisfaction is partly due, I think, to the knowledge that Im not alone in [...]
Every fall I get nostalgic for college. I usually give in to the impulse to sign up for an adult learning class. I think last year it was jewelry making. The year before, we lived in the middle of nowhere, so I took an online course. Now that I’m working at a large university, my [...]
“Mommy, all the furniture in our house talks. I know because my dresser said to me, “Lawrence, wake up.”
There are times when your child does something that makes you love them so fiercely that you almost can’t bear it. George is in New Orleans this week, so I’ve been dropping Lawrence off at my parents’ house before I go to work. They give him breakfast and take him to school (it is so [...]
I don’t know why this struck me as so funny. Probably because he’s played so many really weird guys that it’s just odd to see him calmly narrating his chicken preparation.
Do you know what you’re really like? Are you a happy person, are you positive or negative, do you see the glass half full or half empty? Stop – don’t answer that yet. You may not actually know the right answer. I had depression, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) and mild OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) from [...]
I was immeasurably relieved to see a study last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry that indicated that suicide rates dropped among depressed people soon after they started treatment with antidepressants or psychotherapy. You might wonder why I say I was relieved instead of just pleased. Mainly because SSRI antidepressants have been taking it [...]
I had depression as a child. It went undiagnosed, since I grew up in the seventies and no one knew that children could be clinically depressed. I finally was diagnosed and successfully treated at age 27, but by then my childhood, adolescence and young adulthood had been profoundly affected. I fervently wish that it had [...]
Just in case you can’t afford an iPhone or think it’s not worth the money (my hand’s up on that one) here are instructions for knitting yourself one.
