
Parenting a child with serious mental illness is easier if you can mostly ignore the future. . . . → Read More: Too Vast a Project
![]() Parenting a child with serious mental illness is easier if you can mostly ignore the future. . . . → Read More: Too Vast a Project My eldest son, Jacob, played his first solo show last Friday. My husband and I took the rest of the kids to hear him and we had a nice time, or as nice a time as any 40-something adults can have in a large crowd of teenagers. There is deep joy in watching our . . . → Read More: Proud/Sad On our way home from his therapy appointment today, Carter and I stopped at a red light at the bottom of a freeway off-ramp. Since freeway on-and-off-ramps are popular spots for panhandling, neither of us was surprised to see a young man there. His jacket and pants were grime encrusted; his face and hands . . . → Read More: Sad About That If you live in an age of social media, and if the most powerful woman in television does a show about something you are experiencing in your own life, you will get a nice, long look at exactly what the world thinks of you. Which is…….shall we say…….enlightening. Oprah featured Zach, a young boy . . . → Read More: Oprah Takes On Pediatric Mental Illness I started a blog post on Saturday. It was about how I feel like someone is standing on my chest, how sometimes the weight of the world descends upon me and I feel suffocated. All of that seemed very important until yesterday when, for the first time, Carter opened up about his psychotic world: . . . → Read More: Getting Kinda Crowded ![]() |
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