It is so wonderfully weird to be written about rather than to be the one doing the writing...
I've been in the news lately.
It's a matter of split personality—there's AfternoonNapper, and then there's me. Is she me? Am I her? Can a me be a we?
So many of us are dueling our dichotomy. Our halves are split and split and split again. I am a patient. I am a leader. I am a writer. I am a reader. I am a wife. I am a persona. Regardless, I am continually happy to be able to say — I am — and these two words increasingly become a so much more powerful battle cry compared to the projections of I will or the impermanence of I was.
The Problem of Being a "Patient"
There is a woman who graduated in the top 10 percent of her high school class and was accepted into the University of North Carolina at Chap...
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They say my grandmother used wait on the stoop of the family’s crackerbox house in Southside Chicago and watch as my father walked to school...
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In addition to my work as an advocate, my actual "job" has been as a reporter and editor. I've been in the field professionall...
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Mental health too seldom is discussed. There remains a stigma associated with with conditions that impact the brain. Why? The brain has no b...