A writer with a law degree. A crazy woman in the kitchen. Sometimes able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Posted in Deep Thoughts, bipolar, links, meds, real mental on Aug 18th, 2008
“Plateau,” over at RealMental, hopefully self explanatory regarding my neglect to write here and to visit you and your own wonderful writing and sharing at your blogs.
Never fear, though. Unlike the Monty Python Dead Parrot, I’m not dead, merely resting.
Posted in Deep Thoughts, crank, dad on Jul 29th, 2008
I knew my parents were getting older. But every once in a while, something beyond the greying hair and the slowed pace imposed by arthritis takes me aback. Yesterday, it was my dad’s increasing dithering. He’d asked me to lend him my car, since his own was in the shop and he’s got a drive [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, links, medicine, science on Jun 10th, 2008
The wellness editor at the NYT wrote a thought-provoker linking to an article about the results of a study comparing gender roles and spouses’ feelings about housework between heterosexual and homosexual couples. I thought it was interesting and it’s something I’m going to think about, even though the BH and I are better than many couples [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, cooking, food, links, writing on Jun 4th, 2008
Not long ago, She She asked me if I’d read a piece in The New Yorker about Grant Achatz, the chef of Alinea in Chicago. Achatz developed cancer in his mouth and tongue, and underwent radical radiology and chemotherapy in the hope that he could save his tongue, in the hope that at some point, [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, Princess MeMeMe, poems on May 23rd, 2008
I caught a glimpse of myself
in a coffee shop window today.
I was surprised– I looked good.
Pale face, dark glasses, wry expression.
I was looking less damaged on the outside
than I think I am inside.
It was that glimpse, unexpected, that undid me.
What could I do if this was
always the self-caught glimpse?
The window reflects the clearest,
lightest parts of [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, lawyer on May 6th, 2008
I had a client once who was being evicted from public housing. He’d had a rough hand dealt to him— mentally retarded, emotionally impaired, with paranoia, anxiety, depression, probably borderline personality. He was a mess, and his parents—get this—MOVED AWAY one day while he was at work at a local retailer like K-Mart, rounding up [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, good things, links, poems on Apr 8th, 2008
I was shuffling through a stack of paper the other day and found a copy of the poem “Desiderata” by Max Ehrmann– the very one I’d printed onto heavy bond paper in fancy script italics, and pinned to the heavily decorated corkboard on the outside of my dorm room door in college. I don’t know [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, government, lawyer, links, politics on Apr 7th, 2008
There’s an interesting article in the NYT about former prisoners and the operation of what used to be termed “halfway houses.” Underlying the entire article is the assumption that we want our former prisoners to do well– to succeed upon release, to integrate back into the community– and that this is why these places [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, government, links, politics on Apr 3rd, 2008
Today is the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. You can find a partial archive of his speeches and video and audio clips, here and here. Link to The King Center, here.
For the transcript and audio of Robert F. Kennedy’s speech in Indianapolis about Dr. King’s death, click here.
For Nelson Mandela’s Acceptance Speech [...]
Posted in Deep Thoughts on Apr 2nd, 2008
So yeah, I have sort of felt like Jack Handey or a dime store philosopher lately, or at least like one of the kids from South Park (”You know, I think we’ve learned something today, guys…”), but anyway, I’m in a somewhat musing mood these days. This morning’s no different. I’m looking out the window of the conference [...]