I do not like the label Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy. It conveys no meaning in and of itself. The label routinely began to be applied to a type of medical child abuse in families the late 1970s. The catchy descriptive phrase was used by the British physician, Dr. Roy Meadows, to capture the wild tale […]
On What Would Have Been 100 Years
Today is my mother’s 100th birthday. She is no longer living, but still, today is her birthday. I think of the last time she and I had cake. It was on my 50th birthday, just a bit over one month before she died. It was chocolate. I bought it for myself. I was alone in […]
Milestones in Living With Depression
From time to time I just like to check in and let those readers who also deal with major depression know how I’m doing. I also like to let regular old people know that having a chemical imbalance that impacts mood is not a lot different than having a chemical imbalance that impacts sugar or […]
Revisiting the Virtual
Today I spent a few hours playing in a virtual world. Actually, I was building 3 dimensional graphic representations of an open air meeting space in my virtual world, Virtuality, on the Kitely Grid. Why do I do this? Practicing Positive Behaviors I spent lots of time in and on virtual worlds between 2006 and […]