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Pit bulls and Mental Illness
What’s the connection? Not much, except for two possibilities: both are misunderstood and feared. Up until the 1930’s, pit bulls were associated with kids. (Remember the Our Gang series or the mascot for Buster Brown shoes? Both were pit bulls.) … Continue reading
Lance Armstrong: Psychopath?
This question’s been posed on the Internet since people with this personality disorder have egos the size of the sun. Being charming is also in the mix. Lance was capable of lying to the public for years, and then tried … Continue reading
Attack Of The Fifty-Foot Worm
I’ve always been a shitty type of girl: none of this stool or feces stuff for me. My love affair with four-lettered words began at a young age when there weren’t too many outlets for frustrations and anxieties. Cursing was … Continue reading
Cursed By Bad Karma
“If I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.” In an illness-of-the-week movie, a woman ponders a decades-old mishap. Did her poor decision cause her present cancer? While I don’t believe in such nonsense, I, like the character in … Continue reading
It’s The Little Things
It’s the little moments that tip the scale, left-over pearls from happy days or open wounds from horrific, last-straw endings that make for a good life or, conversely, leave a poor soul begging for a speedy demise. This post is … Continue reading
What’s In A Name?
Does it matter what we call it: mental illness, mental-health condition, brain disorder, brain disease? I believe it does, and this is an exception under my umbrella of thinking. Usually I don’t like name changing, when it’s the result of … Continue reading
Tasteless jokes, Riddles, and Puns To Cheer You Up Post Halloween
What did the leper say to the prostitute? Keep the tip. Yo mamma is so ugly that on Halloween people go as her. Once there was a boy who was born with just a head. He had no body, arms, … Continue reading
A Dirty Word And A Bag Of Tricks
We all do it, especially in the morning—privately and in the bathroom. Why am I writing about this? Actually, I’m not. It’s merely a prelude to one of my coping mechanisms, potty jokes, a proclivity keeping me like the South … Continue reading
The Evil Side Of Religion
Religion has been used to incite wars, bomb the World Trade Center, burn the innocent at the stake, stone people, and “send” those who do not follow a particular belief to hell. Oh, my God! Actually God is not religion. … Continue reading
The “Stress Free Zone”
“Have fun not playing golf,” mocks my Bostonian son, cognizant that I prefer nature through the window. With my destination, a Maine resort, known for its 18-hole championship course, my vacation choice must have seemed bizarre. What it does have, … Continue reading
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