Bipolar disorder (previously known as manic depression) is a diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders where the person experiences states or episodes of depression ...
This forest is awesome. It is cool and a little dark where we walk - the sun filters through above - it is magical. The trees wrapping around one another as they grow. I would like to live in this forest. I could use SOMETHING wrapping around me:) It's a little like a wonderland - I expect pixies to leap out at any point - Heinze loves it too. I wish the deer...
There's a lot to be said about hugs in general [virtual and real ones.. he he], especially unexpected hugs from out of the blue, from someone you've never met yet feel a positive connection to despite that fact that the 'huggee' and 'hugger' are strangers here in cyber-land. Normally I could write up a storm but right now I'm just simply able to express myself in...
As I watch our stock market tumbling I find myself feeling cynical, how did these folks get us IN to this mess! I then remember one of the the coolest coolest things about my job....THE PEOPLE...I get inspired all over again and I have to think we will all be ok. When I do talks in schools or community groups I tell kids about the long haul medicine entails&nb...
Today, January 25th, 2009 I celebrate my 22nd year being sober as a recovering alcoholic. Through AA and a lot of help from friends and strangers I am sober today. My soberity date is January 25th 1987. My life has been turned around and I have never forgotten where I've come form. It took many tries before I finally became sober. I am very grateful to many peopl...
I have been spending several hours in the last week or so, going through old emails. I had over 300 of them, so it's been taking me a while. Tonight, I came across this one. I received it a very long time ago; probably about a year. Ironically, my youngest son, Jon, will be deployed to Iraq sometime this month. And, ironically, the young man in this picture looks an awful darn lot like Jon di...
Hello friends, family, and excellent coworkers, I have some personal news that I want to share with all of you. My wife Alisabeth and I are going to have a baby! She's just beginning the 14th week of her pregnancy. This will be our first chlid, and we couldn't be more excited! Everything is going very well, and we expect a new member of our family to make a special first time appearance on ...
My hearing on the 28th of October, 2008 in Boise, Idaho, was one of the most sttressful and humiliating days of my life. To set before the Judge and tell him why I am unable to work and how my illness has changed my life was really hard for me and on me. I was very nervous because I had been warned by my Attorney that we were before a DIFFICULT Judge. Before we went into the hearing s...