Of Heroes and Defeat

13Dec12

My Dad, my Hero I have this incredible job! I get to be a real live hero! Or at least I will try to be. I know that kids look up to their parents (by design, by default, or by some other loving magic) and I love this feeling that I get when one of […]

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Tags: bipolar, bipolar II, Child, courage, Eleanor Roosevelt, expectations, family, father, Fred Rogers, future, Hero, Home, kids, love, mental illness, mood disorder, Parent, Superman

You Are Here

30Nov12

It sounds like such an obvious statement: ‘You are here’.    Of course I am! Where else would I be? But that’s the catch. Where do we spend our attention most of the time? Worrying about dinner, or the bills, or whether your mate is still angry with you for what you did/didn’t do, said, […]

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Tags: bipolar, bipolar II, breathe, Buchwald. Camus, Coelho, dad, dwelling, expectations, father, forgive, forgiveness, future, guilt, kids, moment, mood, mood disorder, past, present, realistic