One of my hardest things is self-promotion. I’m really good once I get going, but getting out of the gate is really tough for me. I don’t have swagger and I certainly don’t ooze confidence. So picking up the phone and talking to our island bookstore today, and arranging a meeting with the lovely Gloria, […]
I like to think of bipolar as my trusty sidekick. Where ever I go, she goes too, sometimes her presence is obvious, especially if I’m being down on myself and feeling out of place the world. Other times, she sits in the back seat, absorbed in a book, and couldn’t care less about me, as […]
Sometimes changes comes imperceptibly and other times it’s like someone is standing at your door ringing the doorbell, waiting for you to answer. The ground beneath your feet has moved, almost while you slept. How do I know this to be true? Years ago, when I had two toddlers running around the house, crippling back pain, […]
This week I’ve thought a lot about having bipolar, especially since a book I ordered arrived called “Touched With Fire,” an investigation into the link between bipolar and artistic temperament. Mostly, it just made me feel sad. Sad that I am affected with this illness and sad that so many creative people have lived their lives […]
One of my fellow bloggers just wrote a blog post with the same title as this one, but titled Dementia. It immediately struck a chord with me because I could easily insert my illness, bipolar, and have a very similar story. So I did just that. I guess I want to talk about bipolar and how […]
Friends. Good food. Shopping. French. Horsebackriding. For me, Saturday is my favorite day of the week because it’s my day off from the regular routine of the week. I love eating sushi, seeing a movie or watching Netflix. My ideal day can be anything from a great conversation on the phone with a friend I […]
I had to read the words a couple of times to fully process the sentence. The article appeared in this month’s Vogue magazine. It talked about our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family history. One sentence stung. “Cursed with an undiagnosed case of bipolar disorder, she (Margaret Trudeau) grew miserable in 24 Sussex.” Some part of me had […]
Stroke of Midnight We didn’t make any plans the day before, we just knew the week of New Years would involve the kids taking skiing lessons on a local hill. We didn’t know how tired they might be after their lesson so we decided to play it by ear and see how everyone felt. The […]
J.E. Reddington 