Bipolar Mania
I’m starting to feel that, as with everything in life, there is a reason for mania. My hypo-manic mind gets to the point where I can figure out anything. Deep, relevant, important answers to problems. If my wife would let me I could take apart anything, and assemble back in better shape than when it [...]
Featured Video: Deadly Bipolar Disorder – Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius was probably the most important and talented bass player of that generation, and perhaps since. My point of view is different from most, I lost a son to bipolar disorder, also as a result of bipolar mania. The disorder is more dangerous than anyone can imagine. On this video he’s playing bass guitar [...]
Fall Get-Away
My mania is settling down into a more manageable hypomania recently. I’m still not out of the woods, I’ve done some stupid things so far, but it’s getting better. I’m sleeping better, more than 3 or 4 hours a night. Concentration is better, work is easier. I’m going out of town for a few days, [...]
Carrie Fisher’s “Wishful Drinking”
Carrie Fisher Finishes Our Sentences About Family, Work And That Bikini – Monkey See Blog : NPR. Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking, her one-woman show based on her book of the same title, is a wry, hilarious, insightful, and occasionally touching theatrical memoir of the woman who grew up as the daughter of celebrity parents (Debbie [...]
Mike Royko son Robert Royko gets 2½ years
I mean no disrespect by this, as I have (had) the highest respect for Mike Royko. But I can only guess how difficult it would be to grow up with him as your father. Robert Royko, son of legendary newspaper columnist Mike Royko, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for attempting to [...]
