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air force wife.
battler of bipolar disorder
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discoverer of joy.
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    glass castles and such

    i did it. finally. i read the glass castle. and i really liked it. sure, it was good writing. compelling story. bizarre. horrific. but mainly, it made me feel like i am not such a very big failure at parenting. heck, i feed my kids every single day whether they want it or not.

    i picked [...]

    mental monday: a quarter inch

    i’ve noticed that there are certain elements that i must have in my day or i snap. and when i say “snap” i don’t mean i get a little grumpy. i mean that i have an episode. depending on the magnitude of whatever has or hasn’t happened, i either snap a little or i snap [...]

    mental monday

    in an effort to become more of a regular blogger, i feel moved to write a weekly mental monday bit focused on issues of mental health. i think as beth pointed out in her comment, more and more people are fighting this battle of the brain. it helps me to articulate my own struggle. and [...]

    smoochy smoochy to all of you

    piecing together hope

    i’ve been thinking an awful lot about thinking. (if you can count on anyone to take the meta meta thing too far, it’s me.) and sorting through the glut of blogs that i subscribe to, i stumbled across a few sentences that seemed to name me.

    in a post on segullah, titled battle in our brains, [...]